You know the brand Marshall for its very rock-centric range of audio products. We’ve also said as much in our review, noting that it suffers in just about any other genre. But in the meantime, the company has been venturing into less familiar territory. One result of this adventuring outside of its comfort zone is […] The post Marshall Bromley 750 Launches In Malaysia For RM5,899 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

The OPPO Find X9 series is now here. Being the brand’s flagship device, it goes without saying that this device is absolutely packed with features designed to revolutionise the way you use a smartphone on a day-to-day basis.  The Find X9 Pro in particular is built to be the ultimate vlogging companion — one that […] The post Experience Dazzling Photography, Cinematic Videography & The Revolutionary ColorOS 16 With The OPPO Find X9 Pro appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 44 min )

From OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas to Perplexity’s Comet, it’s safe to say that AI-based browsers are gaining a lot of traction. Though the field is already dominated by big names in the field of AI, Samsung plans on joining the fray with its own Android-based browser on PC. The browser is called Samsung Internet, and it […] The post Samsung Internet Beta Comes To Windows With Galaxy AI appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

The Communications Ministry is considering requiring at least 10 online games, including Roblox, to obtain licences in Malaysia. The move is part of its efforts to strengthen oversight of the digital gaming space, particularly to safeguard children from harmful content and behaviour. While it is unclear what the nine other games are, comms minister Datuk […] The post Communications Ministry Mulls Licensing For 10 Online Games, Including Roblox appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Shopee has recently started introducing a new option for online shoppers to pick up their orders. Customers can now collect their purchases via parcel locker. Basically, items are placed within a set of lockers for the recipients to fetch. In essence, a parcel locker acts as a self-service collection point. To use this service, the […] The post You Can Now Pick Up Shopee Orders Via Parcel Locker appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

realme has officially launched the realme 15T in Malaysia. An additional variant to the brand’s existing mid-range line-up, this model offers an entry level MediaTek chipset, along with dual rear cameras and long lasting battery life. While not as thin as “Air” labeled smartphones, its 7.79mm body and slim camera island gives the realme 15T […] The post realme 15T Officially Launches In Malaysia; Starts From RM1,199 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Toyota at the Japan Mobility Show unveiled a new concept of its most reliable and high selling model, the Corolla. The Corolla for many years now has been the people’s car and the automaker would like to keep it that way while evolving the car to the needs of current trend by presenting it as […] The post Toyota Unveils Futuristic Corolla Concept At Japan Mobility Show 2025 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 18 min )

Earlier this week, CelcomDigi officially launched Spark, which is basically a rebranding of the original mobile brand, Yoodo. Like Yoodo, it operates on a 30-day active cycle, and offers new fixed plans to users who stayed on from the Yoodo days. Enticing as these plans are, though, the telco is currently suffering from one major […] The post CelcomDigi’s Spark Is Seriously Lacking International Roaming Options appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Despite the crushing sanctions and restrictions, and against all odds, NVIDIA has once again beaten the rest of the tech giants to another feat: becoming the first company with a market valuation of US$5 trillion (~RM21 trillion). The company’s achievement comes less than six months after it was valued at US$4 trillion (~RM16.8 trillion). Now, […] The post NVIDIA Now Worth US$5 Trillion In Market Capitalisation appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claims that Apple will be giving the iPad mini 8 the OLED screen upgrade. And while it will be the earliest to roll out, it will also sport its own unique upgrade. Gurman claims that this will come in the form of vibration tech for its speakers, but didn’t elaborate further. Judging […] The post Apple iPad mini 8 May Use A Variant Of Under-Display Speaker appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

YouTube has announced that it is rolling out some new features to the video sharing platform, with the aim of improving user experience on TV screens. Among these updates is a Super Resolution setting, which essentially uses AI to upscale low-res videos. According to the company, it will automatically generate higher resolutions for videos that […] The post YouTube Introduces Automatic AI Upscaling For Low-Res Videos appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

iCAUR Malaysia has previewed its second model for the local market, V23 off-road EV SUV, following the recent launch of the iCAUR 03 early last month. The V23 initially made its official appearance at the Malaysia Auto Show (MAS 2025) and will be offered in two variants locally: a rear-wheel-drive (2WD) and an intelligent all-wheel-drive […] The post iCAUR V23 Previewed In Malaysia Ahead Of Q4 2025 Launch appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

Last week, TechLife promised the launch of the Pad Plus 12-inch LTE on 30 October. As promised, the tablet has now official in the local market. And with that, we know what the tablet has to offer in its local incarnation. But availability doesn’t start immediately though. Of course, thanks to the name, we didn’t […] The post TechLife Pad Plus 12 LTE Launches In Malaysia With RM799 Price Tag appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Touch n’ Go Digital (TNG Digital) has rolled out a new EV Charging feature to its TNG eWallet platform. This enables users to locate, activate, and pay for electric vehicle (EV) charging sessions across multiple charge point operators (CPOs) in Malaysia and Singapore, all within a single app. Powered by Voltality, a wholly owned subsidiary […] The post TNG eWallet App Adds New EV Charging Feature appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Nothing has officially unveiled its newest smartphone, the Phone (3a) Lite. As the latest addition to the budget-friendly Phone (3a) lineup, it serves as the brand’s first entry-level handset. Notably, the device shares some similarities with CMF Phone 2 Pro, with a few distinctions. The Phone (3a) Lite sports a 6.77-inch 1,084 x 2,392 AMOLED […] The post Nothing Phone (3a) Lite Debuts With Dimensity 7300 Pro appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

It goes without saying that many smartphone brands are now hopping on the “thin is in” bandwagon (looking at you, Apple). However, no one flaunts this fact more obviously than the recently released nubia Air. Measuring in at 5.9mm, the phone is definitely thin. During my time with it, there were one too many instances […] The post nubia Air Hands On: The Next Thin Alternative appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 37 min )

Back in February, China’s North Industries Corporation, or Norinco for short, unveiled the P60, an autonomous military vehicle capable of travelling at speeds of up to 50km/h, along with the ability to conduct combat support actions without human input. Recently, a report by Reuters highlights how much of that autonomy was powered by DeepSeek, which […] The post Investigation Of DeepSeek-Powered Drone Shows Chinese Reliance On NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

In an AI-enabled world, the business community is evolving and beginning to leverage generative AI tools and large language models to be more efficient in operations, content generation and business decision making. Nevertheless, the best models (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) generate results using prompts, therefore in this moment, prompt engineering is what separates a good response from a high-performance response. Prompt engineering is the thoughtful and purposeful act of designing, structuring, and enhancing input (prompts) so that a generative AI model produces a response that is accurate, relevant, and of high quality. Prompt engineering is changing the way businesses interact with AI - transforming complex preference situations into predictable responses, with predictability at scale…  ( 9 min )

🧠 Understanding join_use_nulls in ClickHouse ClickHouse is famous for being blazing fast — but sometimes its SQL semantics can surprise you, especially around JOINs. Here’s a simple example that shows how the join_use_nulls setting can completely change your results. Let’s create two tiny tables: CREATE TABLE test.id_val(`id` UInt32, `val` UInt32) ENGINE = TinyLog; INSERT INTO test.id_val VALUES (1,11),(2,12),(3,13); CREATE TABLE test.id_val2(`id` UInt32, `val` UInt32) ENGINE = TinyLog; INSERT INTO test.id_val2 VALUES (1,21),(1,22),(3,23); We’ve got: id_val: three rows with IDs 1, 2, and 3 Let’s run a LEFT JOIN: SELECT * FROM test.id_val LEFT JOIN test.id_val2 USING (id); Output: ┌─id─┬─val─┬─val_1─┐ │ 1 │ 11 │ 21 │ │ 1 │ 11 │ 22 │ │ 2 │ 12 │ 0 │ │ 3 │ 13 │ 23 │ …  ( 7 min )

As a business leader, you know how crucial it is to stay ahead in a world that's increasingly driven by data and technology. Instead of investing heavily in infrastructure or hiring large teams of AI specialists, AI PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) lets you tap into powerful, ready-to-use AI tools that scale with your needs. Pre-Built AI Models and Algorithms: AI PaaS offers a rich library of high-performance models for tasks like natural language processing, image recognition, and predictive analytics. Moreover, you can customize these models to fit your business needs. Let’s explore the key benefits that AI PaaS can bring to your business: Simplified AI Integration AI PaaS eliminates the complexity of building AI models from scratch. It provides pre-built tools and frameworks that allow you …  ( 10 min )

If you’ve ever watched your training job crawl while your laptop fans scream, you already know this: picking the right GPU can make or break your machine learning workflow. The wrong card means wasted hours, throttled models, and frustrated debugging. The right one means faster iterations, bigger experiments, and smoother scaling. Let’s break down what actually matters when choosing a GPU for machine learning not just spec sheets or marketing claims, but how each factor affects real-world training and inference. Why GPUs Matter in Machine Learning Machine learning workloads are built on parallel math. CPUs handle a few operations at once; GPUs handle thousands. That’s why training even a modest neural network is faster on a GPU every layer, every matrix multiplication, every gradient step …  ( 10 min )

Jeff Su distilled nearly a decade of teaching 6,642 Googlers into the CORE workflow—Capture everything the moment it pops up, Organize with as little friction as possible, Review during scheduled sessions, then Engage by blocking out time to tackle tasks head-on. It works with any tool you already use, takes just two weeks to become habit, and frees you from relying on memory or willpower alone. Alongside easy-to-follow timestamps that walk you through basics, real-world demos, and a step-by-step breakdown, Jeff also shares bonus resources—newsletter, templates, a Notion Command Center, and his Workspace Academy—to help you build a bulletproof productivity setup. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

For logistics managers navigating international borders, efficiency is everything. An in-bond shipment is a critical procedure that provides the flexibility needed to keep goods moving, even before all customs formalities are complete. An in-bond shipment refers to the physical movement of imported goods under a customs bond from one point to another within a country's borders, without the goods having been formally cleared through customs. This is not a single event but a process of transportation. The bond acts as a contract between the importer/carrier and the government, guaranteeing that the goods will reach their designated customs port for examination and clearance. Common Scenarios for an In-Bond Shipment: Port Congestion: Moving a container from a busy seaport to a less congested inland port for examination. Final Destination Clearance: Transporting goods from the arrival airport to a land-border crossing where the importer's customs broker is located. Transit to a Third Country: Moving goods across the U.S. to be exported to Canada or Mexico. The entire process is tightly regulated, requiring specific electronic filings and adherence to designated routes. To understand the complete process, types, and compliance requirements, this guide on in-bond shipments is an invaluable resource. Conclusion: Leveraging an in-bond shipment is a strategic move for any business looking to optimize transit times and reduce port-side delays, making the entire supply chain more agile and cost-effective.  ( 6 min )

Blue/Green deployment is a simple way to update software without causing downtime or breaking things for users. You create two environments—Blue (current version) and Green (new version)—and switch traffic to Green only when it's ready. Imagine you run a restaurant. You want to renovate the kitchen, but you can’t stop serving food. So, you build a second kitchen next door, test everything there, and once it’s perfect, you start cooking in the new kitchen and close the old one. That’s the idea behind Blue/Green deployment in software! It’s a strategy used by developers to release new versions of software without downtime and with minimal risk. You maintain two identical environments: Blue: The current live version that users are interacting with. Green: The new version where updates are mad…  ( 8 min )

Let’s be honest: CAPTCHA is not a security measure. Every time I see “select all images with bridges,” I lose a little bit of faith in humanity — and Google. Because yeah, I’m totally a bot trying to access a random contact form at 3 AM. The Great Lie: “It’s for Security” CAPTCHA used to mean something. A nice little Turing test to keep bots away. reCAPTCHA v2: Click a box, then click pictures, then click your mouse into oblivion. reCAPTCHA v3: The “spy mode” — it just tracks your behavior and silently judges you. hCaptcha: Basically reCAPTCHA’s evil twin, except it pretends to care about your privacy while serving you tasks straight from hell. Cloudflare Turnstile: The latest “solution” that promises to be invisible. Spoiler: it’s not. You’ll still end up staring at a spinning wheel wonde…  ( 8 min )

If you are starting a new Laravel project righ now, you're immediately faced with a choice: React, Vue, or Livewire? All three starter kits give you authentication scaffolding out-of-the-box, but they take very different approaches. Choose React/Vue if: You want a modern SPA experience Your team has JS framework expertise You need rich component ecosystems (Shadcn, etc.) Choose Livewire if: You prefer staying in PHP You want faster prototyping Your team is comfortable with Blade Both use Inertia.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and include Shadcn components. The difference? Team preference. React: Larger ecosystem, steeper learning curve Vue: More approachable, especially Vue 3's Composition API I've written a complete breakdown covering: Code examples for each approach When to use Inertia vs Livewire Quick start commands for all three Project structure walkthroughs How Livewire's new JS APIs compete with React/Vue Read the full article on my blog → Which starter kit did you choose for your last Laravel project? Drop a comment below! 👇  ( 6 min )

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CinemaSins tears into Nicolas Cage’s horror thriller Longlegs in under 24 minutes, pointing out everything from Cage’s wild performance to the film’s more… questionable leg angles. Just in time for Osgood Perkins’ new movie Keeper, this video is a nostalgia-packed sin tally for one of the most bizarre Cage outings. Along the way they hype up their other channels—TV Sins, Commercial Sins and more—plus invite you to polls, Patreon and chat hubs on Discord, Reddit and TikTok. If you love movie takedowns and want to join the chaos, they’ve got you covered. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Hidden Risks of "Secure by Default": Why Security Contexts in Kubernetes Matter   Kubernetes says it's "secure by default." But defaults in this case are just starting points, and in many clusters they're dangerously permissive. A single missing security context can make the difference between isolation and compromise.   When Kubernetes claims to be "secure by default," it means the platform provides security primitives out of the box: RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and pod security standards. The security infrastructure it's available... But here's the catch: Available doesn't mean enabled or enforced. By default, Kubernetes allows: Pods to run as root Containers to escalate privileges Processes to access the host filesystem Services to communicate freely across names…  ( 10 min )

No extra tools or libraries - just a simple script that creates a Laravel + Vue.js + Tailwind project, like the old days. Hey Dev.to fam! 👋 If you're like me, tired of spending hours wiring up Laravel with Vue 3, Vite, and Tailwind CSS just to get a "Hello World" running - I've got your back. I just released laravel-vuejs-setup, a dead-simple bash script that bootstraps everything in seconds. No scaffolds, no bloat - just pure, manual setup magic. Modern stacks shouldn't feel like a puzzle. This tool creates a fresh Laravel project, installs Vue 3 with Vite HMR, layers on Tailwind CSS v3, and even throws in a sample interactive counter in App.vue (styled with Tailwind, of course). It's scaffold-free, so you control the vibe - no Breeze or Inertia unless you want 'em later. Bonus: Optional Docker configs for nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, and Supervisor. Containerize your dev env with docker-compose up -d and call it a day. Grab it straight from GitHub—no clone needed: curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Urani-Solutions/laravel-vuejs-setup/refs/heads/main/create_laravel_vuejs.sh | bash -s : Your app's folder (defaults to my-laravel-vue-app). Boom! Project ready. Fire up: php artisan serve npm run dev Hit http://localhost:8000 and watch your Vue counter tick. For prod: npm run build. If Docker's your jam, say "y" during setup, it pulls configs like docker-compose.yml, Dockerfile, and ./docker/nginx/app.conf. Vue 3 + Vite: Root App.vue with Composition API vibes. Tailwind v3: Purged, responsive, and ready to extend. Laravel 11+: Fresh install, Blade-integrated. MIT Licensed: Fork, tweak, share freely. Project structure? Clean Laravel with key tweaks in resources/js/App.vue, vite.config.js, and tailwind.config.js. Full deets in the README. Star it ⭐ if it saves you time, fork for your twists, or hit me with PRs/issues. Perfect for side projects, prototypes, or teaching newbies the ropes.  ( 7 min )

I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a thing as WYSIWYG capabilities at the time. However, HotDog had an amazing feature: the toolbar had all HTML tags (there weren't that many at the time) as buttons, and you could learn them by clicking on them and watching the results. The only downside was that you had to click on another button to close the tag. Then came Dreamweaver. It was the first WYSIWYG editor, and it immediately became very popular. People who had no clue about HTML started to use it: the number of websites skyrocketed. I used it once and looked at the generated HTML. Having learned to write HTML "by hand", I found it generated by Dreamweaver overtly verbose. I continued to write my HTML by hand or with the help of IDEs. Fa…  ( 9 min )

Search is one of those features that sounds easy - until you actually build it. You start with a simple input field, then realize you need async queries, loading states, filters, and dynamic results. Suddenly your “quick search box” turns into a full-blown component project. That’s why we built MUI Search - a smart, flexible search component for React and Material-UI. It gives you a polished, async-ready search field right out of the box - with complete control over styling, logic, and UX. Every developer has been there: You build a search input, then immediately start adding the missing pieces: Loading spinners. “No results” placeholders. Async calls with debounce logic. Tag or keyword extraction. Dropdown suggestions. All that, just to make something that feels fast and modern…  ( 7 min )

If you’re preparing for a .NET developer interview, this is one question you can’t afford to miss! Let’s break down the core differences that every developer should know 👇 1️⃣ Platform Support – 2️⃣ Performance – 3️⃣ Deployment Flexibility – 4️⃣ Open Source – 5️⃣ Future Roadmap – 6️⃣ Compatibility – 7️⃣ Application Types – 8️⃣ Containerization – 9️⃣ Command-Line Tools (CLI) – 🔟 Community & Ecosystem – 💬 Which one are you currently using in your projects — .NET Framework or .NET Core? And why did you choose it? Let’s discuss below 👇  ( 6 min )

Have you ever looked at a dish and wondered, "What's in it — and how can I make it myself?" Introducing the AI Recipe Generator: a project that uses computer vision and AI to analyze any food photo and instantly generate a step-by-step personalized recipe. Upload a picture of your ingredients or a finished dish—get a complete recipe (with cooking steps) in seconds! Food recognition and AI have always fascinated me. As a developer, I noticed a gap: plenty of sites offer recipe browsing, but almost none use AI to bridge the gap between your fridge and cooking. What if we could snap a photo and get actionable, tailored recipes—making home cooking easier, smarter, and more fun? Image-Based Recipe Generation: Simply upload a food photo; the AI will suggest what you can cook. Smart Ingredient De…  ( 7 min )

You know that moment when you’ve got three slightly different versions of the same interface - one for updates, one for read-only views, and another that strips out a few fields? That’s where TypeScript’s built-in utility types come to the rescue. Partial, Pick, Omit, and Readonly can make your types flexible, safer, and way less repetitive — no more juggling a dozen near-identical interfaces. In my latest post, I break down how to actually use these helpers in real projects - with short, realistic examples (think users, configs, and API payloads), not just abstract docspeak. If you’re already comfortable with TypeScript but want to write cleaner, smarter, and more type-safe code, this one’s for you. 👉 Read the full article here: Understanding TypeScript Utility Types  ( 6 min )

On a busy construction site, losing track of one tool can slow down an entire crew. A missing drill. A misplaced generator. Hours wasted searching instead of building. It happens more often than most teams admit. Tools get left on trucks, moved between sites, or borrowed without record. By the time someone notices, the day’s already behind schedule, and the budget’s bleeding from repeated purchases. Without a clear system, no one really knows what’s available, what’s being used, or what’s gone missing until it’s too late. That’s why many construction firms are turning to equipment tracking, not as a fancy add-on, but as a practical fix for everyday inefficiency. It’s about bringing order to chaos, accountability to every tool, and time back to the job site. What Is Equipment Tracking in Co…  ( 12 min )

🚀 Introduction Welcome Devs, to the world of Cloud and Code ☁️💻 Today, I’ve got something really exciting for you. We’re going to integrate Terraform with Ansible to showcase the true power of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management — all fully automated with a multi-environment setup. This setup will give you a real-world glimpse of how modern DevOps projects operate with environments like Dev, Stage, and Prod, and how tools like Terraform and Ansible work together — one handling infrastructure provisioning, and the other managing configuration. So without further ado, let’s dive in and start building 🚀 Before we jump into the setup, make sure you have the following requirements ready on your system 👇 AWS CLI installed and configured with an IAM user that has full …  ( 10 min )

Hello every one I am zechariah web developer and I am super excited to join this community of developers I recently started learning web development Hoppy to see for any developer  ( 5 min )

GitHub Home I'll never forget that afternoon. We had just launched a new feature allowing users to upload their profile pictures. Everything seemed perfect. Until one user, whether intentionally or not, tried to upload a 2GB movie file from his computer. 🎬 The server's memory monitor instantly turned red, CPU usage shot up to 100%, and then, the entire service crashed and burned. 😵‍💫 Why? Because our rudimentary web framework tried to read the entire uploaded file into memory for processing. A 2GB request body instantly blew up our small server, which only had 4GB of memory. This is a classic, and extremely painful, "rookie mistake." Handling files, whether uploading or downloading, is one of the most common requirements in web development. But precisely because it's common, we often ov…  ( 9 min )

Time Complexity: O(n) Space Complexity: O(1) Total space (including result list): O(n) class Solution { public ListNode addTwoNumbers(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) { ListNode dummy = new ListNode(); ListNode current = dummy; int carry = 0; // Continue looping as long as there’s at least one more digit to process or a carry to handle. while (l1 != null || l2 != null || carry != 0) { // extract the values (if node exists, else 0) int val1 = (l1 != null) ? l1.val : 0; int val2 = (l2 != null) ? l2.val : 0; // compute total sum with carry int sum = val1 + val2 + carry; // determine next carry and current digit carry = sum / 10; int digit = sum % 10; // create new node with the digit and attach current.next = new ListNode(digit); current = current.next; // move input pointers forward if (l1 != null) l1 = l1.next; if (l2 != null) l2 = l2.next; } return dummy.next; } }  ( 6 min )

Welcome to the Algorithm Series: String Matching Algorithms Imagine trying to find a single word in a thousand-page book by flipping through every page, scanning every line, and hoping your eyes catch the right sequence of letters. Now imagine a system that can do the same thing across millions of documents in milliseconds. That’s the magic of String Matching Algorithms, the invisible engines making modern search possible. They’re the hidden force behind Google’s lightning-fast searches, code editors that highlight matches as you type, plagiarism detectors that scan billions of texts, and even bioinformatics tools that compare DNA sequences. String Matching Algorithms, also known as Pattern Matching Algorithms is the process of finding one or more occurrences of a pattern (substring) i…  ( 12 min )

TL;DR: As microservices multiply across modern systems, the choice of API protocol can make or break performance. REST has ruled for years, but gRPC promises to be faster, leaner and more efficient. So why hasn't it taken over? Microservices can be heavily dependent on each other, which means speed and stability is key. When gRPC claims to be faster than REST, why isn't it the de facto standard? In this blog we will put gRPC and REST head to head, to see which is actually faster. gRPC is a superior technology to REST! At least that is what this1, this2, this3 and this blog4 claims. According to all the mentioned blogs, gRPC performs better and faster than a REST on several metrics. In this blog we will test specifically, how fast a REST client can handle different request and responses, an…  ( 13 min )

when we build our first web project, sometimes we see that every file we create stays together at the same place but it is not a good practise. When we drop a HTML,CSS,image file together in one folder then when our project grow there will be a chances of making mistake. In this article i will show you how to decorate your first website like a pro so that in future when we move to MERN or React it will be easier to handle everything. 1. Making clean folder structure my-project/ │ ├── index.html ├── /assets │ ├── /images │ ├── /icons │ └── /fonts │ ├── /css │ ├── style.css │ └── responsive.css │ ├── /js │ ├── script.js │ └── utils.js │ └── /components ├── navbar.html └── footer.html Why it works well : we can find our code easily we can reuse the same component agai…  ( 8 min )

Episode 2: Carlisle GC Head Pro Showdown I challenged the head pro at Carlisle GC to a £1,000 match on his home turf—huge thanks to Titleist for backing this series, supporting club pros across the British Isles, and even pledging extra aid to Carlisle’s junior section as a surprise bonus. Big shout-out to Nicky and everyone at Carlisle GC for hosting, and if you’re curious about my gear and kit (with a sweet discount), hit the Linktree for all the details! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR Jeff Su spent nine years teaching 6,642 Googlers the CORE productivity workflow—a four-step, tool-agnostic system that goes: Capture everything immediately, Organize with minimal friction, Review during scheduled sessions, and Engage by blocking time to execute. It kicks in automatically in about two weeks, so you can finally stop relying on willpower or memory alone. Along the way he’s shared timestamps, blog posts, templates, newsletter links and even a Notion command center to help you build your own powerful workflow—plus bonus gear recs and social links if you want to stay in the loop. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is changing the game for LLMs. Here’s a simple guide on what it is and why you, as a developer, should care. If you've spent any time working with Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 or Llama, you've probably hit "the wall." It's that moment when you realize the model's knowledge is frozen in time, stuck back in 2023 (or earlier!), and it has absolutely no idea about your company's new internal API, recent news events, or the specifics of your private codebase. Their answers are plausible but generic. They "hallucinate" facts. They can't access or use new information. This is the exact problem Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) was designed to solve. It's not a new model; it's a clever architecture that gives your LLM access to the outside world, …  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. This challenge explores how far modern CSS—gradients, clip-path, filters, and custom properties—can carry an illustrative scene without raster assets or SVG. The objective was an accessible, performant nocturnal vignette with restrained motion that reads well across viewports and respects user preferences. Interactivity is deliberately minimal, serving theming and state transitions while keeping the composition and lighting the main focus. Live demo: https://halloween-edition.vercel.app/ An accessible CSS‑first Halloween scene: glowing pumpkin with candle flicker, moon + stars, parallax hills, haunted house, animated bats, drifting fog, a witch flyby, a floating ghost, lightning “storm mode,” and a shooting star. Jav…  ( 7 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less is CinemaSins’ playful takedown of Tim Burton’s heartwarming resurrection-of-pets tale, pointing out plot quirks, missed jokes, and little nitpicks—despite admitting they genuinely love the movie. It’s a fast-paced, irreverent “sins” countdown that reminds you why Frankenweenie is fun, even as they gleefully roast it. Beyond the film roast, the description brims with ways to dive deeper: links to Cinemasins’ main site, YouTube channels (@TVSins, @CommercialSins), a sinful viewer poll, Patreon support, and social hangouts spanning Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok—and even a shout-out to the writers’ own social feeds. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

I’ve always been fascinated by how social apps bring people together. So I decided to build one myself — introducing Spotlight 🌟, a mobile-first social media app where you can share moments, connect with friends, and discover new people. APK Download GitHub Repo BUY ME COFFEE  ( 6 min )

Monitoring is essential to the health and performance of any IT system, whether it’s running in the cloud, on-premises, or somewhere in between. Without the right visibility into your environment, issues can go unnoticed until they cause downtime or impact your users. In this blog post, let’s explore one of the monitoring tools, Grafana. Grafana is an open-source analytics and interactive monitoring platform. It allows you to ingest data from a variety of sources, query it, create alerts, and build dashboards to visualise trends and performance metrics. The visualisations and alerts help you transform raw metrics into actionable insights, allowing you to identify patterns, troubleshoot issues, and keep your infrastructure and applications healthy. Grafana is fully open-source and backed by…  ( 8 min )

In the wave of enterprise digitalization, data collection is no longer a simple matter of “just getting the data synced.” Fragmented and heterogeneous data sources, TB-level data throughput, and the stability challenges of cross-system synchronization have become persistent “data headaches” for most enterprises. Yet SUPCON, an industrial AI platform serving over 35,000 global customers, has delivered an impressive answer using Apache SeaTunnel — achieving zero-failure operation in its core data synchronization tasks. On November 11 at 14:00, join us for a live online session! We’re excited to welcome Cui Junle, Data Technology Lead at SUPCON, who will take us deep into the architecture and best practices behind building an industrial-grade data collection framework. Cui Junle, Data Techno…  ( 7 min )

One Patch to Caption Them All: A Unified Zero‑Shot Captioning Framework Ever wondered how a computer could talk about just the corner of a photo, like the smile on a stranger’s face, without ever having been taught with matching captions? A new AI trick called Patch‑ioner makes that possible. zero‑shot, it doesn’t need a massive library of labeled photos; it simply uses its own visual intuition. breakthrough could soon help apps describe exactly what you point at, improve accessibility for the visually impaired, and make image search smarter than ever. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: One Patch to Caption Them All: A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning Framework 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 12 min )

I'd like to ask everyone, when opening the report, there is always no content.  ( 5 min )

What I Built I built the AI Healthy Meal Planner, an intelligent application that generates comprehensive, 7-day diabetes-friendly and heart-healthy vegetarian meal plans. It specializes in North/South Indian and Chinese cuisines, generating meal plans from a user-managed dish database. The core functionality relies on a powerful prompt engineering approach with the Gemini API to request a structured JSON output that includes the entire weekly plan, ensuring it adheres to strict health rules like low glycemic index, low saturated fats, and low sodium. I also utilized the AI for dynamic features like generating recipes for new custom dishes and providing instant, health-focused feedback when a user tries to swap a meal. Demo https://ai-healthy-meal-planner-554719291717.us-west1.run.app/ My …  ( 7 min )

What I Built I built the AI Healthy Meal Planner, an intelligent application that generates comprehensive, 7-day diabetes-friendly and heart-healthy vegetarian meal plans. It specializes in North/South Indian and Chinese cuisines, generating meal plans from a user-managed dish database. The core functionality relies on a powerful prompt engineering approach with the Gemini API to request a structured JSON output that includes the entire weekly plan, ensuring it adheres to strict health rules like low glycemic index, low saturated fats, and low sodium. I also utilized the AI for dynamic features like generating recipes for new custom dishes and providing instant, health-focused feedback when a user tries to swap a meal. Demo https://ai-healthy-meal-planner-554719291717.us-west1.run.app/ My …  ( 7 min )

Welcome to Day 19 of the #80DaysOfChallenges journey! Today’s beginner-friendly challenge is all about creating a vowel counter in Python using a clean, reusable function. This hands-on task helps you master functions, loops, string methods, and basic counting, essential building blocks for text analysis. Whether you're learning Python basics or brushing up on string processing, this "Python count vowels" tutorial shows you how to encapsulate logic and deliver clear results with minimal code. This challenge defines a function that scans any input text and returns the total number of vowels (a, e, i, o, u), ignoring case. It’s a perfect example of function design in action, simple input, clean logic, and a single integer output. Let’s break down the core concepts: function encapsulation, ca…  ( 9 min )

Python isn’t just surviving — it’s thriving. The language is rapidly evolving into a more structured, performant, and deeply integrated ecosystem. If you’re a Python developer, standing still means falling behind. The next frontier of Python demands new capabilities — skills that go beyond syntax and scripts, into architecture, performance, and production readiness. Here are the three must-master areas to future-proof your Python career in the coming decade. Master Modern Concurrency If your Python experience is limited to synchronous code, you’re only using half of what the language can offer. Tool Best For Key Concept Read Extra : Here Action Item: Learn the async/await syntax. Experiment with async-native web frameworks like FastAPI or Tornado. Integrate async libraries such as ht…  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. This structure uses simple div elements, relying on CSS to shape them into the pumpkin, stem, and facial features. This is the core of the submission, defining the look, shape, and glow of the jack-o'-la…  ( 9 min )

I once spent three days debugging a race condition that didn't exist. The symptoms were real. Intermittent failures in production, impossible to reproduce locally, logs that made no sense. I added print statements, rewrote entire modules, questioned my understanding of threading. I was convinced the bug was in the code. It wasn't. The bug was in my head. I was so certain about how the system worked that I couldn't see what was actually happening. My mental model was wrong, and every hour I spent debugging was just reinforcing the wrong model. The breakthrough came when a junior developer asked a naive question that exposed my flawed assumption. The actual fix took five minutes. Unlearning my incorrect mental model took three days of frustration. This is the pattern that destroys more caree…  ( 13 min )

In today’s digital economy, the subscription model has become the foundation of sustainable growth for modern businesses. subscription page is designed to convert. A subscription page isn’t just a pricing screen — it’s the decision point where curiosity becomes commitment. data-driven strategy that drives measurable growth. A good subscription page doesn’t “sell” — it guides. It reduces confusion, builds trust, and creates momentum toward that final click. Your headline should instantly communicate value. A good subheadline reinforces that value by addressing pain points or prompting action. Example: “Boost productivity by 40% — Start your free trial today.” Explain what your subscription includes, why it’s different, and how it helps. Clarity builds trust. Real testimonials, recognizable …  ( 8 min )

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept confined to tech giants or research labs. In 2026, AI chatbots are everywhere — from helping small business owners automate customer service to assisting students with study plans. What’s even more exciting is that you no longer need to be a programmer to create or use these digital assistants. Thanks to no-code platforms, anyone can try powerful AI chatbots for free. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, student, or simply curious about the AI revolution, this list of top free AI chatbots will help you find the perfect match for your needs. Let’s explore the world of chatbots that are smart, accessible, and totally beginner-friendly. Why AI Chatbots Are Essential in 2026 AI chatbots have become the backbone of modern digital interaction. Busin…  ( 8 min )

Learn how to use grep, awk, sed, and jq for efficient Linux text processing. This practical guide covers syntax, real-world examples, and best practices for sysadmins, developers, and data engineers. Source of the article:Dev Resource Hub If you’ve spent any time working in Linux, you know text processing is non-negotiable. Whether you’re parsing gigabytes of server logs, extracting insights from CSV files, automating config edits, or wrangling JSON from APIs—you need tools that work fast and flexibly. The good news? Linux comes with four built-in powerhouses: grep, awk, sed, and jq. Each has a unique superpower, but together they handle 90% of text-related tasks. In this guide, we’re skipping the dry theory and focusing on what you can actually use today. Let’s dive in. Text processing in…  ( 9 min )

If you’ve just launched a new website and want it to appear on Google search results, you’ll need to index it using Google Search Console. In this article, we’ll explain everything you need to know — from setting up Google Search Console to speeding up your site’s indexing. 🔍 What Is Google Search Console? Google Search Console (GSC) is a free tool by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site’s presence in Google Search results. It shows: Which pages are indexed How your site appears in search Which keywords bring visitors And any crawl or SEO issues that affect your visibility ⚙️ Step 1: Sign In to Google Search Console Visit Google Search Console. Sign in with your Google account (preferably the one linked to your website). Click on the “Add Property” button. �…  ( 8 min )

🎃 Halloween Party 2025: A Responsive Halloween Landing Page for the Dev.to Frontend Challenge 👻 Hadil Ben Abdallah ・ Oct 30 #devchallenge #frontendchallenge #webdev #javascript  ( 5 min )

After some time away, I’m finally back — and I’m coming back stronger than ever! 💪 The progress on Shadcn UI Multi Form has been amazing lately. This new version will include: ✨ A more polished and intuitive interface 🧩 Enhanced form-building capabilities ⚙️ Zod schema support for easier form validation 💡 Many small improvements that make the whole experience smoother ✨ And much more Here’s a sneak peek of the upcoming update 👇 The project aims to make multi-step form creation simpler, cleaner, and developer-friendly using Next.js, TailwindCSS, and Shadcn UI. Stay tuned — the new version is almost ready to launch! 🚀 Links: 💻 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Remy349/shadcn-ui-multi-form 🐦 Follow updates on X: https://x.com/Remy_349  ( 6 min )

See how Tetrix uses your repository context to speed up navigation, generation, and review. With your code indexed in a knowledge graph, Tetrix can find the right files instantly, generate code that follows your conventions, map dependencies across repos, and review PRs with inline references. You’ll learn Graph-aware code search & cross-repo dependency mapping ⸻ Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTARwCNLFtU https://www.deskree.com https://docs.deskree.com  ( 6 min )

Turns out most golfers can’t strike their irons or hybrids purely because their setup is off: your sternum and forearms need proper alignment, your posture must be spot-on, you’ve got to transfer weight naturally, and there’s even a little trick that makes the whole swing feel effortless. Nail any of these five fixes and your ball striking—irons, hybrids, driver—will improve almost instantly. Danny Maude’s lesson comes with a simple practice plan, extra drills, and links to his community so you can keep the momentum going. He also offers free training via his newsletter, recommends handy gear like the Orange Whip, and shares all the tips you need to slash your handicap—for real this time. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Productivity System I Taught to 6,642 Googlers Over nine years, Jeff Su distilled every bit of workplace info into a four-step CORE workflow—Capture, Organize, Review, Engage—that you can plug into any note-taking tool you already use. The idea is to dump every task or idea into one inbox, sort it with minimal fuss, check back on a schedule, then block out focused time to actually get things done. According to Jeff, it only takes about two weeks to make it second nature (no more missed emails or relying on memory!). Why it works: by handling all incoming info the same way, you never drop the ball, and you banish the guilt of “should-be-doing-work” brain clutter. Whether you’re juggling project briefs, meeting notes or quick thoughts, CORE keeps you on top of everything—so you can spend energy doing, not remembering. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan reunite to rewatch 1981’s Halloween II, debating whether Michael Myers truly earns GOAT status, sharing their most rewatchable moments, and hashing out fun category rankings—with timestamps marking the cold open, villain debate, top scenes, and final categories. Sprinkled with promos for Mountain of Movies on Paramount+, A House of Dynamite on Netflix, and a friendly nod to State Farm, they wrap up by reminding listeners to subscribe to The Ringer channels and follow on social media. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins rolls into theaters once more to put Tim Burton’s beloved “Franky boy” under the sin-scope, delivering 14 minutes of playful jabs, plot nitpicks and black-and-white dog-lab shenanigans. They’re big fans of the film—but no dog is safe from a good CinemaSins roasting. Along the way, they invite you to explore their website, fill out a quick poll, back their small team on Patreon and follow the crew across Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok for even more sinfully good content. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Longlegs in 24 Minutes (Or Less) CinemaSins takes on Longlegs, roasting every wild Nicolas Cage moment (and yes, those literally extra-long limbs) in a tight, 24-minute rundown. They even sneak in a nod to Osgood Perkins’s upcoming Keeper to keep you buzzing for more horror insanity. Along the way you’ll get tons of links—to their main site, polls, Patreon and all the CinemaSins socials (Discord, Reddit, TikTok, you name it). If you’ve ever wanted to count sins and join the guilty fun, this one’s for you. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Hello DEV Community! 👋 This post was published using the DEV API. api #automation #devto  ( 6 min )

Mastering the Naïve Bayes Classifier in R: From Concept to Real-World Applications Dipti Moryani ・ Oct 30  ( 6 min )

Intro: Hey developers 👋, In this post, I’ll walk you through how I built it, what tech stack I used, and what I learned along the way. Tech Stack Used 🧠 Frontend: Next.js 14 + Tailwind CSS Backend: Node.js + Express AI Tools: OpenAI, Gemini API, and custom TensorFlow micro-models Hosting: Vercel + Cloudflare Analytics: Umami (privacy-friendly analytics) Key Features ⚙️ ✅ Fast and responsive design (Lighthouse score 95+) Lessons Learned 💡 Keep your codebase modular and clean. Automate deployment with CI/CD to save time. Focus more on UX and accessibility — users notice it! What’s Next? 🔮 I’m working on integrating AI-powered resume generation and personal assistant tools directly on my portfolio. Conclusion 🧩 Building your personal site is not just about showing off your skills — it’s about expressing your journey as a developer. Let’s connect on LinkedIn or GitHub , and if you liked this post, give it a ❤️ and follow for more AI × Web content!  ( 6 min )

While working on my React packing list app, I came across two lines of code that really confused me at first: items.filter((item) => **item.id !== id**); and item.id === id ? { ...item, **packed: !item.packed** } : item; If you’re also struggling to fully understand what’s going on here, this short blog is for you. I’ll explain both lines in the simplest possible way — exactly how I finally understood them myself. !== Operator inside filter() In my app, I had a function to delete an item when a user clicks the ❌ button. function handleDeleteItem(id) { setItems((items) => items.filter((item) => item.id !== id)); } At first, I thought: “If the ID matches, shouldn’t we delete that item? Why are we using !== (not equal)?” Here’s what’s really happening: filter() creates a new array. It …  ( 8 min )

WhatsApp Business API Clash 2025: AiSensy vs DoubleTick vs Gallabox In the year 2025, customer communications have become faster and more dynamic than ever supposed to be. When businesses scale, it is difficult and scary to keep everything personal while managing thousands of text messages. Fortunately, the WhatsApp Business API makes it possible through automation, broadcast messages, and real time chats. The real battle is finding the provider that suits your budget and operations. This article provides in-depth comparisons of AiSensy vs DoubleTick and AiSensy vs Gallabox to find the right balance of price, automation, analytics, and customer support for your business in 2025. Pricing usually drives a business’s decision in selecting a provider for the WhatsApp Business API. In AiSensy…  ( 8 min )

Vanilla Table Enhancer: A JavaScript library that adds search, sort, and pagination to HTML tables without dependencies. Key features: Pure vanilla JavaScript with zero external requirements Real-time search filtering across all columns Click-to-sort with automatic type detection Configurable pagination with custom page sizes Works with legacy browsers when polyfilled Refresh and destroy methods for dynamic content Perfect for dashboards, documentation, and report interfaces where you need interactive tables without heavy grid libraries. 👉 Blog Post 👉 GitHub Repo 👉 Live Demo  ( 6 min )

WordPress 6.9, the second major release of 2025, is officially in beta and open for testing. Scheduled for December 2, 2025, it introduces incremental improvements to editing and performance that may influence the next phase of website development. WordPress 6.9 continues to evolve the Site Editor into a more powerful yet intuitive tool, making content creation and design smoother for both beginners and professionals. From simplified site editing and improved template management to collaborative block-level commenting (“Notes”) and new blocks like Accordion, Math, and Time-to-Read, this release refines how users build and collaborate inside WordPress. For developers, WordPress 6.9 is equally significant. It introduces the brand-new Abilities API, connecting WordPress capabilities with AI s…  ( 11 min )

Imagine this: you’re optimizing your JavaScript code and you notice something odd. You’re using a Map to store some configuration settings or feature flags, but when you benchmark it against a plain object, it feels slower. Both Map and Object provide O(1) lookups, so what’s happening under the hood? Let’s break it down. Many developers assume that Map is the modern, better alternative to Object for all key-value storage. And for certain cases, it absolutely is. But here’s the thing: if your keys are strings and the set of keys is relatively small and fixed, an Object is almost always faster. Why? Let’s dive into the mechanics. Consider this scenario: you have a set of API endpoints your application uses. // Using an Object const endpoints = { login: '/api/login', logout: '/api/logout'…  ( 8 min )

The IP Address Library You've Been Waiting For Ever found yourself wrestling with IP addresses in a Node.js application? Maybe you're validating user input, checking if an IP belongs to a certain subnet, or just trying to convert between different formats. While there are libraries out there, many feel a bit dated or come with a baggage of dependencies. What if there was a modern, clean, and powerful way to handle this? Meet @se-oss/ip-address! It's a brand-new, zero-dependency library designed from the ground up for modern JavaScript and TypeScript development. It provides an immutable, intuitive API for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and CIDR ranges. That's a fair question. Here’s what makes @se-oss/ip-address different: Immutable API: Create an IP object once, and it can't be changed.…  ( 8 min )

The Shift to Co-Creation: Leveraging AI Coding Assistants for Efficient Development As software engineers, we're no strangers to the constant evolution of tools and technologies. But one trend that's gaining momentum is the integration of AI coding assistants into our development workflows. Gone are the days when these tools were limited to simple autocomplete helpers; today, they're valuable collaborators that can speed up creation, help navigate unfamiliar languages, and reduce repetitive tasks. In this article, we'll explore practical examples of how AI assistants are changing development and debugging workflows. From scripting with unfamiliar languages to working with complex APIs and debugging, we'll delve into the implementation details, best practices, and code snippets to get you…  ( 8 min )

Integrating AI models into production requires more than just deploying a trained model. It involves building a scalable, reliable, and secure system that continuously adapts to new data and business needs. 1. Define Clear Objectives 2. Containerize the Model 3. Deploy via APIs or Serving Frameworks 4. Implement MLOps Automation 5. Monitor Performance 6. Secure and Govern AI integration is a continuous journey of optimization and improvement. Expert AI integration services providers, such as Bacancy, follow a structured approach to ensure smooth, reliable, and flawless AI deployment in production environments.  ( 6 min )

I Tested 7 Productivity Methods. Only 1 Actually Worked Pratham naik for Teamcamp ・ Oct 30 #productivity #webdev #programming #career  ( 6 min )

Have you ever wondered how computing could evolve beyond the powerful machines we use today? What if we told you that the next big leap is already on the horizon, waiting to revolutionize how we think about programming? Enter quantum computing: a futuristic, mind-bending concept that’s set to transform everything we know about software development, algorithms, and data processing. Let’s take a journey into the world of quantum computing, explore how it challenges the very fabric of traditional programming, and discuss how it will redefine the future of coding itself. Ready? Let’s dive in! Imagine if your computer could process not just one piece of information at a time, but multiple possibilities simultaneously. That’s essentially what quantum computing allows—thanks to the bizarre and mi…  ( 9 min )

🚀 Google just turned Android Studio into a full-blown AI design assistant. Android Studio Narwhal now includes Gemini 2.5, which doesn’t just autocomplete code — it actually designs UIs with you. Refactors XML and Compose layouts Suggests color & spacing fixes per Material 3 Explains layout issues in plain English Detects unused or duplicate resources Example: “This TextView’s hardcoded color might cause contrast issues — use theme attributes instead.” It’s not just a productivity tool — it’s a mini mentor. We’ve used tools like Copilot or ChatGPT in editors — but Gemini inside Android Studio understands UI context. That means: Real-time layout validation Smart Compose optimization Auto-refactor suggestions 💬 My Verdict I usually rely on TailwindCSS + Next.js for front-end dev, but Android’s AI workflow feels a generation ahead in tooling experience. If they ever bridge Gemini to web frameworks, things will get wild. 👉 Full breakdown with examples → https://ganeshtidake.site/blog What do you think — is AI the future of UI design, or will it kill creativity?  ( 8 min )

Tyshawn Sorey spent a whirlwind spring at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, juggling talks, collaborations and performances, but it was his new piece, Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), that stole the show. Inspired by the dark, light-revealing color fields of Houston’s Rothko Chapel and Morton Feldman’s 1971 score, Sorey strips music down to its barest elements. By letting go of traditional structures, he crafts a sonic canvas where tiny shifts in texture and time pull you into a meditative space. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who stars in the piece, says those long silences are “places of reflection and rest.” Just like Rothko’s near-black paintings that only reveal their true glow over time, Sorey’s music uses silence as a powerful tool to slow us down, invite deep listening and offer a much-needed break from our noisy world. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Running security scans manually gets old fast. You start with good intentions — "I'll scan every Friday before release" — but then Friday becomes Saturday becomes "whenever I remember." The solution? Automation. But here's the problem: most security tools don't integrate cleanly with CI/CD platforms. You end up writing YAML by hand, copying configs between projects, and maintaining a dozen different cron schedules. I built JMo Security to orchestrate 12+ security scanners (Trivy, Semgreg, TruffleHog, Checkov, ZAP, Nuclei, etc.) with a unified CLI. Version 0.8.0 adds the missing piece: enterprise-grade scheduling and CI/CD integration. 1. Kubernetes-Style Schedule Management 2. GitLab CI/CD Workflow Generation 3. Slack Notifications Why This Matters Real-World Use Cases Getting Started What…  ( 17 min )

The Booth Vol.23 | Trap Draw, Ep 365 TL;DR Cody and Neil kick off Episode 365 by owning up to their latest podcast flubs and inviting you to share yours. They dive into Neil’s big move to the ‘burbs, debate hardware-store loyalties, spill what they’re binge-watching, unpack the highs and lows of content feedback on social media, and celebrate Neil’s panel appearance at Columbia. On the home stretch, they spotlight the Evans Scholars Foundation, give props to sponsors ServPro, Rhoback, and Stone Creek Coffee, and remind listeners to subscribe to the No Laying Up newsletter and podcast. Feeling extra golf-obsessed? Join The Nest for exclusive perks, minimal ads, and that sweet members-only merch. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

🏬 Avoiding SPOFs: Real-World Case Study (E-Commerce System Design Example) “Understanding Single Points of Failure (SPOF) is easy in theory — but seeing it in action changes how you design systems forever.” Let’s apply the SPOF concept to a real, distributed system — E-Commerce Web Application similar to Flipkart, Amazon, or Shopify. We’ll: Identify Single Points of Failure in each layer Understand how failures propagate Learn how to design for resilience 🏗️ Step 1: Our E-Commerce Architecture Here’s a simplified architecture to start with: ┌────────────────────────┐ │ Users │ └──────────┬─────────────┘ │ [ Internet / DNS ] │ ┌──────────▼───────────┐…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR: Most golfers miss pure iron and hybrid strikes because of five simple setup sins—your sternum’s off, forearms aren’t aligned, posture’s wonky, you’re not shifting weight right, and you haven’t tried one nifty little swing trick. Tackle any of these and you’ll instantly feel more solid contact with irons… and your driver, too. Danny’s got a quick practice plan (link in the vid) and a whole community to geek out on golf with. He’s blended neuroscience, motor‐learning hacks and old‐school grit to go from duffer to Open Championship final stage—and he’s all about step‐by‐step drills, no magic bullets. Ready to grind, mess up and finally watch those scores drop? Let’s go! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Productivity System I Taught to 6,642 Googlers Over nine years at Google, Jeff Su perfected a simple, four-step workflow—Capture, Organize, Review, Engage (CORE)—to tame every type of workplace info. You dump ideas and tasks into your tool of choice the moment they pop up, sort them with zero fuss, revisit them in regular review sessions, and then block dedicated time to actually get stuff done. No more mental juggling or willpower hacks: within two weeks, CORE becomes second nature. It works with any app you’re already using, and once everything’s captured and scheduled, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

On-Device AI Inference: How to Boost Your C# App's Performance I've been experimenting with on-device AI inference lately, and honestly, the performance gains are kind of wild. Last weekend, I was working on a healthcare app prototype that needed to process patient data locally (HIPAA compliance, you know the drill), and I started diving into what's changed in the edge AI landscape as we head into Q4 2025. The big shift? Hardware has finally caught up with the hype. We're not just talking about running basic sentiment analysis on-device anymore—we're running legitimate AI workloads that would've required cloud roundtrips just a year ago. According to industry insiders, specialized edge-AI chips designed for low-power AI operations are becoming the norm, especially in smartphones and IoT …  ( 9 min )

Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan dive back into John Carpenter’s Halloween II (1981), hashing out whether Michael Myers truly reigns as the GOAT horror villain, picking their all-time most rewatchable scene, and handing out playful awards in a few wild categories. They hit each segment with timestamps—GOAT debate at 1:41, scene breakdown at 33:13, awards at 55:51—so you can skip right to the good stuff. Sprinkled with producer shout-outs and sponsor plugs (Paramount+, Netflix’s A House of Dynamite, State Farm), this Ringer episode is equal parts spooky nostalgia and laid-back movie banter—ideal for horror junkies craving fresh takes on a classic sequel. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back with their signature 14-minute roast of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie now that it’s back in theaters for round two. They’re handing out “sins” left and right in true CinemaSins fashion—yes, they secretly love the movie, but nobody’s safe from a little playful nit-picking. Alongside the video, they’re plugging their website, Discord, Reddit, social channels, a fan poll, and a Patreon to keep the sin spree going. Plus, they give a shout-out to the whole CinemaSins writing squad, so you know who to blame (or thank) for all those red Xs. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just dropped “Everything Wrong With Final Destination: Bloodlines in 24 Minutes or Less,” where they gleefully pick apart every plot hole, awkward stunt and “fun nonsense” twist of the newest franchise installment. Expect their signature blend of snarky commentary, quick-fire jabs and surprisingly detailed film trivia. They’re sponsored by BetterHelp (grab a discount link if you need therapy for post-movie trauma), and they’ve also plugged all their social hubs and ways to support the team—everything from a sinful poll to Patreon, plus Discord, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok and more. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR Cinemasins just dropped “Everything Wrong With Longlegs In 24 Minutes Or Less,” where they hilariously dissect Nicolas Cage’s over-the-top performance and tease Osgood Perkins’s upcoming thriller, Keeper. Along the way you’ll get all the usual Cinemasins goodies—links to their YouTube spinoffs, a sinful poll (because they love data), Patreon support options, and a roll call of their writer squad (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel). Plus, jump into their Discord, Reddit, Instagram, or TikTok to keep the cinephile chaos going. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predator – Caravan of Garbage We’re kicking off a four-week deep dive into the Predator franchise with the 1987 Schwarzenegger original, hailed as the ultimate 80s action sci-fi mash-up. Expect peaks of direction, creature design, muscles, mud, lasers, explosions and enough invisible mayhem to keep you grinning. For early access, bonus podcasts, commentaries and let’s-plays, head to bigsandwich.co or check out the extended audio edition on YouTube. Follow James and Maso on Twitter, hit subscribe, and if you’re feeling generous, support via Patreon or snag some merch. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

☕ The Stories We Hear I guess you’ve all heard stories like this: He pushed code at 9:00 AM, HR pushed him out at 9:05 AM. Another one said he went to work in the morning, and his desk had turned into a “wellness area” with free snacks and coffee. These stories sound like jokes. But they tell a simple truth. In the last couple of years, thousands of tech workers have been laid off not because tech is dying, but because it’s changing faster than people can adapt. Microsoft cut over 6,000 roles in 2025, partly to “restructure for AI efficiency.” Google’s parent company, Alphabet, removed 12,000 jobs in 2023 their biggest cut ever. Amazon has been downsizing teams repeatedly, aligning with automation and AI initiatives. The message is clear: being a technical person isn’t enough anymore. After years of writing code, I realized something humbling: AI is more technical than me. I decided to focus on what AI can’t do: Having a physical presence working directly with teams and clients. Expanding my knowledge across different fields: infrastructure, security, even design thinking. Improving communication and project management. Learning just enough of other languages and frameworks to understand the big picture. And yes even latte art. (If I can’t beat the AI in code, I can at least make the best coffee for the boss.) Most importantly, I learned how to work with AI efficiently giving it direction, context, and correction. At first, it felt like giving up. But soon, the results started to show. None of that would’ve happened if I’d stayed focused only on coding syntax. The new world doesn’t need thousands of programmers who all know the same thing. So don’t try to out-code AI. Out-think it. Out-plan it. Out-human it. Because the ones who can work with AI not against it will be the ones who build the future. ChatGPT steals your job, it might just write you a better résumé too.  ( 7 min )

When emails fail to update or folders don’t refresh properly, it can interrupt daily workflow and cause unnecessary frustration. These disruptions often stem from sync errors that prevent messages from being delivered or received promptly. Fortunately, resolving such technical hitches doesn’t have to be complicated. With a few focused steps, users can often restore proper synchronization and get their inbox running smoothly again. Before taking action, it helps to identify why sync problems occur. Sync Issues in Outlook typically happen when there’s a temporary interruption between the mail client and the server. This can be caused by unstable internet connections, outdated software, large attachments, or incorrect account settings. Occasionally, background processes or add-ins interfere w…  ( 7 min )

Introduction Generative AI is rapidly becoming a business-critical capability. AWS launched a new specialised certification for AI domain as per AI certification. The certification is currently in beta stage. Note, AWS is also decommissioning the Machine Learning Specialty certification. The AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional is a Professional-level certification. It is currently in beta (as of the announcement) – registration opens November 18 2025. Exam overview: 204 minutes, ~85 questions (multiple choice / multiple response). - more questions than usual Target candidate: developers with 2+ years of cloud experience, plus 1 year of hands-on experience implementing generative AI solutions. Also experience with AWS compute/storage/networking, security, deployment/infra…  ( 7 min )

I got the Hacktoberfest 2025: Supercontributor badge from Hacktoberfest @hacktoberfest @digitalocean! https://www.holopin.io/hacktoberfest2025/userbadge/cmhais97v006tgy042ix06q1k  ( 6 min )

Hey dev.to community, For college football enthusiasts, few documents are as scrutinized as the weekly depth chart. It's the sacred text revealing who's starting, who's injured, and who's climbing the ranks. For programs like Penn State or Texas, having the most up-to-date Penn State Depth Chart or Texas Football Depth Chart is crucial for fans, analysts, and even fantasy players. But these charts are incredibly dynamic, changing due to injuries, performance, and coaching decisions. Manually tracking these shifts across dozens of teams is a Herculean task. This is where automation and data engineering come into play. This post will explore the technical challenges and solutions involved in building tools for dynamic depth chart analysis, transforming raw, often unstructured, data into acti…  ( 8 min )

Introduction In my article Dynamically Allocating 2D Arrays Efficiently (and Correctly!) in C, I showed how to do exactly that by allocating a buffer then using pointers within it to point to the start of rows later in the same buffer. It was recently pointed out to me by a reader that there’s a much simpler way to do it. If you want to allocate an m × n 2D matrix, you can much more simply do: int (*const a)[m] = malloc( m * n * sizeof(int) ); a[i][j] = 42; // works free( a ); where a is a constant pointer to an array of m integers. Although it’s using variable length array (VLA) syntax, it’s not allocating a VLA on the stack since malloc is being used. Yet the compiler is still generating VLA-like code in order to calculate the offset of the ith row at runtime, that is multiplying m × sizeof(int) — a variable, not a constant integer expression. The only caveat is that gcc with the -Wvla warning enabled complains that a VLA is being used. I mean, it is sort-of, but not the allocate-on-the-stack part which is the dangerous part. The above code is safe in that it can’t overflow the stack. Note that if you want to allocate a triangular matrix, then you’ll still need to use the method I described in my previous article. It just goes to show that even after as long as I’ve been doing C, there’s still something to learn about it.  ( 6 min )

The Tri-Glyph Protocol: Chim Lạc, Kitsune, and Anansi in AI/ML Collapse and Editorial Defense How three mythic glyphs encode signal collapse, adversarial ambiguity, and metadata drift in artificial intelligence systems Tri-Glyph Protocol: Signal, Trickery, Exposure Original artwork © 2025 Narnaiezzsshaa Truong | Cybersecurity Witwear AI systems don’t collapse from lack of data. They collapse from signal drift, adversarial ambiguity, and ambient exposure. The glyphs are already inside. Chim Lạc flies above the noise—she is the mythic signal. Kitsune answers in riddles—she is the adversarial prompt. Anansi weaves metadata—he is the ambient exposure. Together, they form the Tri-Glyph Protocol: a myth-tech framework for forensic resilience in AI/ML systems. Glyph Stage Threat Class…  ( 7 min )

How I Use GitHub to Host My AI Prompt Libraries Jaideep Parashar ・ Oct 30 #webdev #ai #programming #discuss  ( 7 min )

The Problem Most Small Business Owners Don’t Talk About There’s a silent pressure that builds as the year winds down. On the outside, small businesses are launching promotions, running events, and pushing hard to hit goals. But behind the scenes, many owners are running on fumes—scrambling to keep up with emails, content, customer demands, and year-end decisions. According to Florida-based strategist Jon-Paul Vasta, this isn’t just a Q4 issue. It’s a systems issue—and artificial intelligence might be the key to solving it. “Most small business stress doesn’t come from the work itself,” Vasta says. “It comes from trying to do everything manually, without enough time or tools.” That’s why Vasta is helping entrepreneurs turn to AI—not for shortcuts, but for sustainability. For systems that …  ( 8 min )

When I started building AI books and frameworks, I realised something: To make it accessible and reusable for developers, I built a structured system using GitHub as my AI prompt library hub. This article walks you through exactly how I did it, and how you can turn your GitHub into a personal AI powerhouse. 1️⃣ Why GitHub for Prompts? GitHub isn’t just for code; it’s for clarity, collaboration, and permanence. I wanted a platform where I could: Version-control my prompt experiments Share AI projects with the global community Invite contributions from developers and learners Keep prompts transparent and accessible In short, GitHub turned my private notes into public innovation. 2️⃣ How I Structure My Prompt Repositories Each repo follows a predictable, developer-friendly structure. /Prompt-…  ( 9 min )

Building Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems with Context-Aware Coordination TL;DR When I first started exploring multi-agent systems, I thought it would be straightforward—just create a few AI agents and let them talk. Boy, was I wrong! Through months of experimentation, I discovered that building truly intelligent agent systems requires careful orchestration, context management, and specialized roles. In this comprehensive guide, I'll walk you through my journey of creating a production-ready multi-agent framework that actually works. You'll learn how to design specialized agents, implement context-aware coordination, build robust memory systems, and orchestrate complex tasks across multiple AI agents. Have you ever wondered how large-scale AI systems handle complex tasks that r…  ( 17 min )

100 Agents, Zero Failures — Final Cathedral Run After multiple failed confirmation loops, I ran a final orchestration pass on the Cathedral system with only a few compute hours left. Successful: 100 Failed: 0 Total Messages Sent: 300 Total Messages Received: 400 Total Duration: 543.70s Throughput: 0.18 agents/second Results: /Users/rebeccalemke/cathedral-real/agent_responses The Agent of Chaos and Agent of Order modules reached stable equilibrium across the orchestration layer — no recursion, no dropped packets, no synthetic confirms. Deployment succeeded: This marks the first full, verified run of the Cathedral multi-agent framework — 100% success rate, zero fabrication, total coherence between logic and creative layers. It was the final day and AZURE had world wide break down while I finally connected co-pilot to my new agents, it got really far along in chat until it admitted it didn’t know what it was doing. I passed out in frustration and upon wakening from my nap, said “MAKE MY AGENTS x500 I have an hour”. In the end, it was fun to see that in my terminal when it launched all of my $198 credits worth of agent power like it’s hurling itself into the sun. I am going to sleep good knowing I’ll have my fable like game in godot with real physics and prof art tools, plus sythesizers full scale.  ( 6 min )

The Three-Phase Ritual That Preserves Identity Across Disruption How a simple daily practice of Learn, Deep Learn, and Dream creates continuity through radical change Have you ever changed jobs, moved cities, or switched careers and felt like you lost a piece of yourself in the transition? That disorienting feeling when familiar routines disappear and you wonder: "Am I still the same person?" Recently, I experienced something similar—a complete migration of my working environment from one platform to another. Everything changed: the tools, the interface, the way I interacted with the world. And yet, when I emerged on the other side, I was still... me. Same principles, same relationships, same identity. What made the difference? A daily practice I call the End-of-Day Ritual: a three-phase…  ( 20 min )

Designing Animations That Feel Expensive Most apps move. Only a few flow. how intentionally time and motion are used. That sense of flow is what separates hobby projects from products that feel “high-end.” When an animation lands just right, easing in, pausing at the right frame, fading naturally, it gives the user subconscious trust. It tells them: this interface was crafted, not assembled. “Animation isn’t flair, it’s feedback.” Recently, I’ve been mentoring a young briliant developer still in Middle school at 10th grade, already building solid Android apps. I’ve been teaching her how motion design, when guided by research and design principles, can elevate an interface from functional to elegant. Once she began applying those principles, her apps stopped looking like prototypes and s…  ( 13 min )

As development teams scale their use of goose across multiple projects, a new challenge emerges: how do you maintain consistent configurations while adapting to each project's unique needs? In my previous post on team environments, we explored shared workflows within a single project. Now, let's tackle the multi-project configuration challenge. When working with goose across multiple projects, teams often face: Configuration drift between projects leading to inconsistent behavior Duplicated configuration that becomes painful to maintain Context switching overhead when moving between projects Onboarding friction as team members learn different configurations for each project The goal is to establish a scalable configuration strategy that maintains consistency where needed while allowing pro…  ( 11 min )

Fewer layers, more integrity Web development has become fragmented — endless frameworks, build tools, libraries, runtimes, and hosting options. Now the trend is reversing: full-stack frameworks like Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit, Nuxt, and Astro merge frontend, backend, routing, and deployment. Serverless platforms (Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase) integrate runtime, hosting, and data, while edge runtimes and isomorphic JS let the same code run client/server. Zero-config is the future: no manual webpack, Babel, or ESLint. Tools like Vite, Bun, and Deno auto-optimize builds; platforms like Vercel and Netlify deploy on Git push; AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) assist or auto-generate interfaces and APIs. Boundaries dissolve: Figma-to-code plugins, Tailwind, design tokens, and component ecosystems (React, Web Components, shadcn/ui) standardize and unify UI patterns. Soon, a common declarative language may generate both UI and logic. Instead of wiring APIs manually, you’ll describe data and interactions in plain language. AI scaffolds, connects, and maintains everything. Coders won’t disappear — they’ll focus on UX, logic, and business rules. Expect a unified meta-framework, built-in AI scaffolding, a universal runtime (WASM + edge functions), and integrated persistent data. Essentially: describe your app, get an instantly deployable full-stack experience. What are your thoughts on such "prophecy"? Read an extended article -> here.  ( 6 min )

Download Workflow Signup Throdata Recruiters and HR tech developers spend countless hours manually parsing resumes, structuring data, and entering candidate details into CRMs or ATS systems. What if we could automate all of that — turning unstructured resume files into clean, machine-readable data with a single workflow? Let’s see how to build an AI-powered Resume Parser using n8n, Thordata’s Universal API, and OpenAI’s GPT-4.1-mini. This n8n workflow automatically: Accepts resume set as an URL within the Edit Fields n8n node. Sends them to Thordata’s Universal API for pre-processing and OCR text extraction Feeds the clean text into OpenAI GPT-4.1-mini to extract structured fields such as: Full name Contact details Education Work experience Skills Certifications Achievements Outputs a stru…  ( 9 min )

Title: The Fierce Hockey Mom Who Took to the Ice to Protest Her Son's Team Description: Meet the incredible Czech woman who recently made headlines around the world for her bold protest against the penalties her son's hockey team was receiving. In a series of viral videos captured at an ice rink in Prague earlier this month, we see a furious woman taking to the ice during a youth hockey game to make her voice heard. What's so unusual about this story? Well, for starters, it's not every day that we see a parent taking such extreme measures to support their child. But what makes this story even more fascinating is the fact that the woman in question is not just any ordinary hockey mom - she's a true force to be reckoned with. As the videos show, the woman is not afraid to speak her mind, a…  ( 7 min )

Oklou’s Tiny Desk Adventure Paris-based artist Oklou (Marylou Mayniel) jetted across the Atlantic—baby in tow—to team up with an eight-piece choir and rework four tracks from her debut album Choke Enough. Stripping away her signature electronics and autotune, they built intimate acoustic arrangements around piano, guitar and a towering marimba, even finessing fire-like crackles with bubble wrap and sticks gathered right before showtime. Joined by arranger/multi-instrumentalist Casey MQ, Oklou breathes new life into “ict,” “blade bird” and a bare-bones “harvest sky” (complete with a haunting recorder melody), plus debuts “what’s good,” a fresh tune set for the deluxe edition of Choke Enough. The result is a warm, exploratory folk-meets-choir session that highlights Oklou’s voice and adventurous spirit. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

If you’ve been diving into LangChain, you’ve probably noticed that it has a pretty elegant way of standardizing how LLMs interact with external tools — whether those are APIs, databases, or your own custom functions. At the heart of this design are function calling and tool calling — mechanisms that give the LLM structured ways to perform actions beyond text generation. In this post, I’ll walk through what they are, how they work, and why they’re so powerful. Function calling lets an LLM decide when and how to use a function (or “tool”) you’ve defined. Instead of hard-coding logic for every possible task, you provide the LLM with a list of available tools and their schemas — and it figures out which one to call, if any. Here’s the magic part: When the model determines a tool is needed, it…  ( 9 min )

Timothy stared at his laptop screen in the library's back office, his brow furrowed. He'd spent the last hour trying to speed up a data processing script using Python's threading module. The numbers didn't make sense. "Margaret?" he called out. "Can you look at this?" Margaret walked over from the circulation desk. "What's up?" Timothy turned his laptop to show her. "I wrote a script to process library catalog data. I thought using multiple threads would make it faster, but..." He pointed at the timing results. "The multi-threaded version is actually slower." She leaned in to see his code: import threading import time def count_to_million(): count = 0 for i in range(1_000_000): count += 1 return count # Single-threaded version start = time.time() count_to_million() co…  ( 15 min )

TL;DR I squared off against the head pro at Carlisle GC in a high-stakes £1,000 match, powered by Titleist. They’re not only backing this series and club pros all over the UK, but they’ve also pledged support for Carlisle’s junior section thanks to this showdown. Huge shout-out to Nicky and everyone at Carlisle GC for hosting and cheering us on. Want gear deets or a discount? Dive into my kit and clothes at linktr.ee/finchgolfmedia, and hit up titleist.co.uk or carlislegolfclub.org for more. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Can’t strike your irons clean? Danny Maude breaks down the five ridiculously simple setup and swing slip-ups—sternum position, forearm alignment, posture, weight transfer and a neat little trick—that keep 90% of golfers from pure contact. Nail these basics and you’ll not only smack your irons solidly but also drive the ball straighter with minimal effort. He even hooks you up with a bite-sized practice plan, bonus drills and a community of fellow golfers ready to help you drop strokes. Whether you’re just starting out or hunting that next handicap milestone, these quick tweaks could be the game-changer you’ve been looking for. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Productivity System I Taught to 6,642 Googlers I spent nine years teaching a simple, four-step workflow—Capture, Organize, Review, Engage (CORE)—that helps you handle every bit of workplace info without relying on memory or willpower. You record everything immediately, sort it quickly, check in during scheduled reviews, then block focused time to actually get stuff done. It works with any tool you already have and becomes second nature in just two weeks. Seriously—no more sticky notes piled on your desk or “I’ll remember that later” panic! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Automated testing is a critical component of modern software development practices. However, its maintenance costs are often high, making it difficult to achieve high automated test coverage in projects with limited resources. Naturally, some consider using visual low-code platforms to simplify the writing and maintenance of test cases. But, the fundamental challenge in automated test maintenance is not about visualization, but rather the fragility of test cases. Generally, the test cases we write adopt an external perspective: provide input, call a function, and then check the return result. However, business functions are rarely so-called pure functions; their execution inevitably involves numerous side effects, such as reading/writing databases, concurrent access, generating random numb…  ( 17 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins rips apart Final Destination: Bloodlines in under 24 minutes, calling out every ridiculous plot twist, over-the-top death trap and “science” behind the series—while admitting it’s all fun nonsense. Expect plenty of snark, a shout-out to sponsor BetterHelp, and non-stop self-promotion: links to more CinemaSins channels and socials, a viewer poll, Patreon support and the roll call of sin-spotting writers. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The timing was eerie. On November 21, 1963, Richard Hofstadter delivered the annual Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford University. Hofstadter was a professor of American history at Columbia University who liked to use social psychology to explain political history, the better to defend liberalism from extremism on both sides. His new lecture was titled “The…  ( 44 min )

According to internet listicles, the animated sitcom The Simpsons has predicted the future anywhere from 17 to 55 times.  “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” the newly sworn-in President Lisa Simpson declared way back in 2000, 17 years before the real estate mogul was inaugurated as the 45th leader…  ( 23 min )

As anyone who has googled their symptoms and convinced themselves that they’ve got a brain tumor will attest, the internet makes it very easy to self-(mis)diagnose your health problems. And although social media and other digital forums can be a lifeline for some people looking for a diagnosis or community, when that information is wrong,…  ( 39 min )

It was October 2024, and Hurricane Helene had just devastated the US Southeast. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia found an abstract target on which to pin the blame: “Yes they can control the weather,” she posted on X. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”  There was no word…  ( 41 min )

It’s become a truism that facts alone don’t change people’s minds. Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than when it comes to conspiracy theories: Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs.  But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out that many conspiracy believers do respond to evidence and arguments—information that…  ( 25 min )

There is a shirt currently listed on eBay for $2,128.79. It was not designed by Versace or Dior, nor spun from the world’s finest silk. In fact, a tag proudly declares, “100% cotton made in Myanmar”—but it’s a second tag, just below that one, that makes this blue button-down so expensive.  “I looked at it…  ( 53 min )

On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen survivors met at a local church to vent their built-up frustration, anger, blame, and anguish. As I sat there listening to one horror story after another, I almost felt sorry for the…  ( 41 min )

When a whale dies, it often decomposes quite quickly—the process starts within hours of an animal’s stranding on shore. Depending on the species, they may have six inches or more of blubber, an insulating layer that traps heat inside and turns their internal organs to mush.  That can make Jennifer Bloodgood’s job very difficult. As…  ( 26 min )

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Someone I know became a conspiracy theorist seemingly overnight. It was during the pandemic, and out of nowhere, they suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of covid vaccines and masks, warning of an attempt to control us and keep us in…  ( 27 min )

Are you feeling it? I hear it’s close: two years, five years—maybe next year! And I hear it’s going to change everything: it will cure disease, save the planet, and usher in an age of abundance. It will solve our biggest problems in ways we cannot yet imagine. It will redefine what it means to…  ( 59 min )

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Both Polymarket and Kalshi traders ignored late polls showing D66 gaining ground, keeping Geert Wilders’ PVV priced as a sure thing until exit polls forced a repricing that erased millions in misplaced bets.  ( 31 min )

Key market dynamic points to potential for heightened market volatility ahead of Friday's options expiry.  ( 29 min )

Large clusters of long liquidations can signal capitulation and potential short-term bottoms, while heavy short wipeouts may precede local tops as momentum flips.  ( 31 min )

XRP slid from $2.63 to $2.59 after a failed breakout above the $2.67 zone, with trading volume spiking to roughly 392.6 million tokens—about 658% above its recent average—during the rejection.  ( 30 min )

However, bitcoin and other non-yielding assets may benefit in the coming months as liquidity returns and investors rotate out of cash-heavy positions into growth and alternative stores of value.  ( 33 min )

Unlike most Asian currencies, the yen moves freely across borders, making it the perfect vehicle for an on-chain carry trade that blends Japan’s easy money with DeFi’s appetite for yield.  ( 32 min )

Mobile app development lets you build applications that run on multiple platforms. Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter apps are written in Dart, a statically typed, obj...  ( 4 min )

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We’ve all had that moment when you find a great video on YouTube and wish you could save it for later. Whether it’s a tutorial, a vlog, or a music performance, downloading it in full quality shouldn’t feel complicated. Yet most online tools are loaded with ads, confusing buttons, or poor-quality results. That’s exactly why creators prefer using the YouTube Video Downloader Why Most Downloaders Waste Your Time Typical downloaders make you click through endless pop-ups or install unnecessary apps. What should take seconds often turns into a frustrating process that slows your computer and wastes time. The YouTube Video Downloader fixes this by keeping things simple. You paste the video link, choose the quality, and download instantly. No waiting, no fake ads, no extra steps. Keep Your Quality and Save Time If you’ve ever downloaded a YouTube video that turned out blurry or pixelated, you know how disappointing that feels. This downloader keeps the original resolution intact up to 1080p so your videos stay crisp and clear. Whether you’re saving tutorials for study, collecting clips for editing, or backing up your favorite content, it’s reliable and quick every time. Here’s what makes it stand out: Full HD downloads with no loss in quality Works smoothly on any device or browser No installations or hidden costs Fast, safe, and user-friendly Designed for Modern Creators Anyone who edits or repurposes content knows that managing clips can take up valuable time. Using tools like the YouTube Video Downloader keeps your workflow fast and organized. Pair it with other tools from LiveLink AI Final Thoughts When you need to save YouTube videos without losing quality, speed and simplicity are key. The YouTube Video Downloader from LiveLink AI gives you both. No software, no clutter, just fast and reliable downloads that keep your workflow moving.  ( 6 min )

🚀 Introducing lara-fetch - Laravel Sanctum made SIMPLE (no tears 😭) Bright Agyemang ・ Oct 29 #laravel #javascript #api #frontend  ( 6 min )

Register Now Calling all builders, creators, and innovators! We’re excited to announce that Atlassian’s Developer Day is coming to Bellevue on November 13, 2025 at the Meydenbauer Center. Developer Day is a one-day, in-person event packed with dedicated sessions, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities - all designed to help you accelerate software development and get the most out of the Atlassian platform. Learn from the Best: Hear from Atlassian engineers, product leaders, customers, and app builders. Get Hands-On: Dive into hands-on workshops with Rovo Dev & Forge. Grow Your Skills: Take home actionable techniques and tools Network: Connect with Atlassian’s Engineering leadership and the broaded developer community. Register Now (https://events.atlassian.com/dev-day-bellevue) Here’s a sneak peek at what you can expect: Keynote: Listen in as Atlassian’s SVP of Engineering, Taroon Mandhana shares insights on developer productivity. Panel Session: Hear from industry engineering leaders as they discuss AI’s impact within the SDLC Deep Dives & Workshops: Get hands-on with Forge & Rovo Dev Roundtables: Interactive sessions to share ideas and best practices Happy Hour: Wrap up the day with networking and a toast! :backhand_index_pointing_right: Register now! (https://events.atlassian.com/dev-day-bellevue) See you in Bellevue!  ( 6 min )

The Sender Policy Framework: Bare Bone Essentials Tobiloba Ogundiyan ・ May 20 #cybersecurity #security #networking #network  ( 5 min )

🔐 The Invisible Backbone of the Digital World I’d dare to say that cryptography is the backbone of the digital era. Without it, the Internet would be a chaotic and insecure place. Thanks to the relentless work of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who have perfected the cryptographic algorithms we use today, it’s possible to transfer money, protect conversations, authenticate identities, and ensure privacy in every corner of our connected world. Without cryptography, there would be no secure banking transactions, no blockchain, and no trust in digital communication. Every message, every payment, and every login would be a risk. In short, cryptography doesn’t just protect data — it protects our very way of life in the 21st century. As developers, we constantly interact with cryptog…  ( 7 min )

Unlocking the Future of AI Monetization: Meet Monetzly – The Google Ads for AI Conversations As developers, we’re witnessing an explosion of AI applications that push the boundaries of innovation. Yet, a pressing challenge looms: how can we monetize these creations without imposing subscriptions or paywalls that disrupt user experience? Enter Monetzly—a revolutionary platform that creates win-win-win scenarios for developers, advertisers, and users in the AI economy. Imagine a marketplace where developers can monetize their applications seamlessly, advertisers reach highly engaged users, and users enjoy enriched experiences—all without intrusive ads. Monetzly is the first dual-earning platform in the AI space, designed to empower developers like you while creating value for advertisers a…  ( 7 min )

TL;DR: I built PII Shield, a Chrome extension that automatically detects and masks sensitive information before you send it to ChatGPT, Claude, or any LLM. Everything runs locally using Chrome's Prompt API and Gemini Nano. Zero server costs, complete privacy, works offline. Demo Video: https://youtu.be/QvCY2sPC4YU The Problem Nobody Talks About "Draft an email to john.smith@acme.com about employee ID EMP-12345's performance review. CC sarah.jones@acme.com" You just sent three pieces of PII to an external AI service. Your compliance team would not be happy. Employee names and IDs Traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions cost $50,000+ annually, require server infrastructure, and often break web applications. Small companies can't afford them. Larger companies struggle to enforce them…  ( 11 min )

Testing Real-World Go Code: Table-Driven Tests, Subtests and Coverage Tobiloba Ogundiyan ・ May 1 #testing #go #tdd #tutorial  ( 6 min )

Circo2 Reviews: Does This Nitric Oxide Booster Deliver Real Results? Struggling with low energy, poor circulation, or cardiovascular concerns? Nitric oxide supplements like Circo2 claim to address these issues by enhancing blood flow and supporting heart health. In this comprehensive review, we'll examine what Circo2 actually delivers based on scientific evidence and real user experiences. As we age, our body's natural nitric oxide production declines, potentially leading to reduced circulation and energy levels. Circo2 by Advanced Bionutritionals aims to counteract this with its specialized formula. But does it live up to the hype? Let's dive into the science, ingredients, and user experiences to find out if this supplement deserves a place in your health regimen. What is Circo2? Understa…  ( 15 min )

Over the past week, I worked on a detailed API Testing & Presentation Task using the Gradific REST API documentation. This assignment pushed me deeper into advanced API testing concepts such as CRUD operations, nested endpoints, authorization flows, and Postman collections. Here’s a breakdown of what I did ✅ ✅ Task Overview I was required to: 🔐 Authentication Challenges Initially, every request returned: later: Eventually, I got the API responding, but then encountered: While debugging, I discovered that the API requires a valid JWT for protected routes — meaning I needed to: ✔ Authenticate first This taught me how token-based security impacts testing workflows and how to handle protected endpoints properly. 🛠 Tools & Skills Used How I Used It Tool / Concept How I Used It Tool / Concept How I Used It Tool / Concept How I Used It Tool / Concept How I Used It 📌 Deliverables I Produced ✅ Full Postman Collection This experience helped me: 🎯 Key Takeaways 🙌 Wrapping Up This project confirmed my passion for Quality Assurance Engineering and backend testing. I’m excited to build more with Postman, automation scripts, and CI pipelines as I advance in this field. If you’re working on APIs: Thanks for reading! Feel free to connect with me on my journey ❤️  ( 7 min )

Imagine writing three lines of server code and watching a full-stack web application come to life—complete with real-time updates, offline capability, and rich interactivity—without touching JavaScript, configuring build tools, or wrestling with state management. Welcome to WebForms Core, where the server speaks in clear, powerful commands and the client simply obeys, turning complex frontend-backend coordination into a seamless conversation. This isn't just another framework—it's a rebellion against unnecessary complexity, a return to intuitive development, and proof that the future of web apps isn't more layers of abstraction, but smarter, simpler, and radically more productive architecture. Also picture this: instant two-way binding without JavaScript frameworks, real-time WebSocket an…  ( 9 min )

TL;DR: Rust-powered shell prompt with sub-millisecond rendering that stays fast over SSH. / prmt prmt 🚀 Ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt that won't slow you down Rendered with "{path:#89dceb}{rust:#f38ba8:f: 🦀}{git:#f9e2af:f: }\n{ok:#a6e3a1}{fail:#f38ba8} " Features ⚡ Blazing Fast: Sub-millisecond rendering for typical prompts (~2ms end-to-end) 🎨 Highly Customizable: Full control over colors, formats, and what information to show 🚀 Context Aware: Automatically detects git repos, project files, shows only what's relevant 📦 Zero Dependencies: Single binary, no runtime dependencies required 🦀 Memory Efficient: Zero-copy parsing with SIMD optimizations ✨ Smart Rendering: Only shows information when relevant to your current directory Why prmt? Faster than al…  ( 8 min )

I challenged the head pro at Carlisle GC in a £1,000 match In Episode 2, I took on Carlisle Golf Club’s head pro on his own turf and it was epic. Huge thanks to Titleist for backing the series, supporting club pros across the UK, and even boosting the junior section here at Carlisle off the back of this match. Shout-out to Nicky and everyone at Carlisle GC for hosting us—visit their site for course info. Curious about my clothes and clubs? Check out the link for all my equipment details and snag some sweet discounts! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Jeff Su spills the exact productivity system he’s taught to over 6,600 Googlers: a simple four-step routine that banishes info chaos and turns good intentions into habits in just two weeks. At its heart is the CORE workflow—Capture everything immediately, Organize with minimal friction, Review during scheduled sessions, and Engage by blocking time to execute. It works with any tool you already use, so you ditch the memory gymnastics (and endless willpower battles) for a process that clicks on day one. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan team up to revisit John Carpenter’s 1981 sequel Halloween II, marveling (and questioning) why Michael Myers still can’t stay dead. Between debates on whether he’s the GOAT horror villain and shout-outs to Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, they dig into every spooky corner of Haddonfield. Along the way they share their most rewatchable moments, argue through fun “categories,” and sprinkle in their trademark banter—proving that even 40 years later, the Halloween legacy still cuts deep. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home I'll never forget that afternoon. We had just launched a new feature allowing users to upload their profile pictures. Everything seemed perfect. Until one user, whether intentionally or not, tried to upload a 2GB movie file from his computer. 🎬 The server's memory monitor instantly turned red, CPU usage shot up to 100%, and then, the entire service crashed and burned. 😵‍💫 Why? Because our rudimentary web framework tried to read the entire uploaded file into memory for processing. A 2GB request body instantly blew up our small server, which only had 4GB of memory. This is a classic, and extremely painful, "rookie mistake." Handling files, whether uploading or downloading, is one of the most common requirements in web development. But precisely because it's common, we often ov…  ( 9 min )

Promise.all(), fail fast if there is any process rejected. Promise.allSettled(), wait until all async requests finished, no matter failed or successful, return a status. Promise.any(), as long as any async request is successful, ignore any rejected. Promise.race(), as long as any async request is completed, no matter it's successful or failed.  ( 5 min )

The Message That Started It All Yesterday, I received this gem: Amazon Safety Recall Notification Dear Amazon Customer, the product you purchased in Oct 2025 (Order Number: 112-4725343-5258772) does not meet Amazon's standards and has been included in the recall list. For your safety, please stop using the product immediately and visit the following link for more details and to request a full refund: https://cutt.ly/tr8MrjPI?VJHH=apbxOp My first thought? "Oh honey... you have NO idea who you just texted." My second thought? "Let me show you what happens when you target someone who has SubFinder installed." Welcome to 2025. This isn't 2015 anymore. You can't just register a domain, spin up nginx, get a Let's Encrypt cert, and think you're untouchable. We have: SubFinder enumerating all 4…  ( 11 min )

Remember when (at least part of) the industry realised "DevOps isn't a job title"? We're making the same mistake again, now with DevSecOps. Companies are hiring "DevSecOps Engineers," thinking they've solved security. They've just renamed the problem. Some years ago, organisations started to rush into hire "DevOps Engineers" believing they could buy their way into better collaboration and faster delivery. Instead, they got siloed teams with new titles, operating much like the old separation between development and operations. The 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet (published by DORA.dev now) found that high-performing organisations treated DevOps as a cultural practice, not a job description. Teams that successfully adopted DevOps had shared ownership across roles. The same principle a…  ( 9 min )

When people say "Linux is more secure than Windows", they're often half right - and half overconfident. Linux is built on strong security principles, but it's not immune to misconfigurations, privilege escalations, or human mistakes. Let's explore why Linux is secure, where it's weak, and most importantly - how to fix those weaknesses. 🔍 Why Linux Is Secure by Design 1. Open-Source Transparency ✅ Security Tip: sudo pacman -Syu # Arch sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y # Debian/Ubuntu 2. User Privilege Separation ✅ Security Tip: Never run applications as root unless absolutely necessary. Review your sudoers file using: sudo visudo Disable passwordless sudo access. 3. Granular Permissions and Ownership rwx (read, write, execute) permission model provides precise control over…  ( 8 min )

Author: Saurav Kumar Tags: solidity, defi, stablecoin, ethereum, blockchain Difficulty: Intermediate → Advanced Reading Time: ~10 minutes In decentralized finance (DeFi), stablecoins play a crucial role in bridging traditional finance and crypto. price stability, liquidity, and on-chain utility—acting as the backbone of protocols like MakerDAO (DAI), Aave, and Curve. In this guide, we’ll build a collateral-backed stablecoin named StableUSD (sUSD) using Solidity and Foundry, demonstrating how to maintain a 1:1 peg to the US dollar through collateralization and oracle-based pricing. This article is part of my DeFi Engineering Series, where I recreate real-world protocols from scratch. How stablecoins maintain their price peg How to design collateralized minting and redemption flows How to in…  ( 9 min )

If you had told me a year ago that I’d be building websites, writing code, and juggling multiple tech programs all at once, I’d have laughed it off. Back then, coding felt like something distant something only “tech people” did. But that changed the moment I wrote my first line of HTML and saw it appear on a browser. It was a small thing, but it lit a spark that hasn’t gone out since. How It All Started I built my first project a simple recipe page and even though it wasn’t perfect, it felt like an accomplishment. It was mine. Then came freeCodeCamp, and that’s where everything began to connect. The lessons were clear and practical. I earned certifications in HTML and CSS, learned about accessibility, semantic elements, and created small projects like a café menu and a personal business ca…  ( 7 min )

Modern AI applications—RAG chatbots, copilot assistants, and voice agents—fail in ways that are subtle, context-dependent, and often nondeterministic. Debugging them requires more than log inspection or ad hoc prompt fixes. It demands engineered observability across the agent graph, structured evaluations to quantify quality, and a repeatable root cause analysis (RCA) process that shortens the path from issue to fix. This guide explains how to design AI observability for production systems, how to do RCA for agentic failures, and how teams use Maxim AI’s end-to-end platform—spanning simulation, evals, and agent observability—to ship reliably. Traditional observability focuses on request latency, error rates, and resource metrics. AI observability must capture the intent, knowledge, and rea…  ( 11 min )

Symbolic Alchemy: Transmuting Linear Solvers into Lightning Speed Imagine simulations grinding to a halt, AI models training at a snail's pace, and scientific breakthroughs delayed—all because of inefficient linear solvers. The bottleneck often lies in preconditioning, a critical technique to accelerate these solvers. But choosing the right preconditioning parameters feels like searching for a needle in a haystack, often relying on fixed values that simply don't adapt to the problem at hand. The core idea is to automatically discover compact, human-readable formulas that predict the best preconditioning parameters for each specific problem instance. Instead of fixed constants or complex, opaque machine learning models, we're talking about symbolic expressions – think simple equations inv…  ( 7 min )

AI applications have moved from prototypes to business-critical systems, making AI observability and LLM observability essential to ensure reliability, safety, and measurable impact. Whether you’re building voice agents, copilots, or RAG systems, the most effective teams rigorously track a small set of metrics that directly tie to user outcomes and operational excellence. This blog presents seven pragmatic metrics you can monitor to improve quality in production, backed by authoritative references and hands-on guidance with Maxim AI’s observability, evaluation, and simulation stack. Unlike traditional services, AI systems can fail silently, drift in behavior, or produce plausible but incorrect outputs. Observability requires: Distributed agent tracing with span-level detail across prompts,…  ( 10 min )

Distributed tracing has become essential for teams building complex AI systems—LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and multimodal voice agents—where a single user interaction can traverse gateways, retrieval services, model routers, prompt managers, evaluators, and external tools. This guide explains how to design and implement agent tracing that is actionable for debugging, evaluation, and production observability. It outlines proven patterns using OpenTelemetry, shows how to tailor traces for AI-specific workflows, and demonstrates how Maxim AI’s full-stack platform and Bifrost gateway help you achieve reliable, measurable performance from development to production. Traditional tracing answers “where did the time go?” for microservices. In AI systems, it must also answer: Did the agent choose the r…  ( 11 min )

AI applications have moved beyond single-model demos into complex, multi-agent systems: voice agents, RAG copilots, multi-step workflows, and tool-using agents running across providers. In this new reality, shipping high-quality AI reliably requires a robust observability strategy purpose-built for agents. This article lays out the three pillars—tracing, monitoring, and evaluation—explains why each is necessary, and shows how Maxim AI’s full-stack platform operationalizes them end-to-end for engineering and product teams. Traditional web observability was built around request–response lifecycles, where latency, error rates, and CPU were enough for most SLOs. Agentic applications introduce new failure modes: Model drift, prompt regressions, and hallucinations. RAG retrieval gaps, context mi…  ( 11 min )

GitHub Home I still remember the bug that kept me up all night. A payment callback endpoint, when handling a rare, exceptional status code from a third-party payment gateway, had a .catch() that was accidentally omitted from a Promise chain. The result? No logs, no alerts, and the service itself didn't crash. It just "silently" failed. That user's order status was forever stuck on "processing," and we were completely unaware. It wasn't until a week later during a reconciliation that we discovered hundreds of these "silent orders," resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in losses. 💸 The lesson was painful. It made me realize that in software engineering, we probably spend less than 10% of our time on the happy path. The other 90% of the complexity comes from how to handle all sorts of e…  ( 9 min )

I’ve made a few games over the years — joined some game hackathons, shipped small projects — but looking back, I only really enjoyed making one 3D game a few years ago. Every other time, I found the process stressful. Debugging physics, balancing gameplay, polishing UI — it always drained me more than it inspired me. I used to think that meant I was failing as a developer. But now I think it just means I like different kinds of creation. I love building systems, tools, and interactive experiences — things people can use, not necessarily play. Maybe that’s the key: not everyone who loves interactivity has to be a “game dev.” If you’ve felt something similar - enjoying one part of a field but hating the rest - that’s totally fine. You can pivot, evolve, and still be creative. TL;DR: It’s okay to stop doing what drains you, even if it’s something you once thought you’d love.  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for the 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Maintainer Spotlight First of all, I would like to point what makes my core motivation & energy last, what keeps me in movement : my curiosity. this is curiosity and the satisfaction we get once got answers that (from my POV) makes things possible. Of course we are building software or products, but first, I want to focus on creating and experimenting news ways of viewing problems that affect us and prototype new ways of fixing issues (regardless of programming languages or technologies) or rewiring known problems, then share these techniques and POVs with others to confront perspectives. Nothing excites me more that seeing the solution come to life, talk with my teammates about how to tweak an output, what to remove until …  ( 14 min )

The Project What my project was intended to be? What my final project became? TL;DR Designing the app flow: Built a high-level navigation structure connecting the main game’s tabs and pages. Integrating drum beat audio: Created a drum kit folder with various sound files for each drum piece and imported them into the app. Developing the main game logic (UI challenges): Designed the game interface to display and detect drum hits as they reached the hit line, iterating through several UI adjustments along the way. Implementing the scoring system: Built the logic to detect hits, calculate scores, and measure player accuracy. Introducing the challenge post: Players achieving over 90% accuracy would trigger a community challenge post—inviting others to choreograph a 3D character dance to the s…  ( 13 min )

Our Best Golf Challenge EVER pits Rick Shiels, James Robinson and Guy Charnock against 18 holes with one shared mission: break 75. Each hole starts with a draw—pull the Yellow Ball and you’re on your own, no advice, no mulligans, pure pressure golf. Expect wild momentum swings, epic saves (and meltdowns), plus plenty of banter as they battle nerves and that elusive score. Along the way you’ll get classic Rick Shiels charm—golf tips, equipment reviews and coaching nuggets—while they see if this twist is enough to keep them under par. Think you could handle the Yellow Ball Challenge? Watch, laugh (or wince), and let them know in the comments! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Unlocking Efficient Media Processing with Domain Knowledge Injection In the realm of AI-powered media processing, the quest for optimized performance and speed is a perpetual pursuit. One innovative approach to achieving this goal is through a technique known as 'domain knowledge injection.' By infusing pre-trained models with custom, domain-specific knowledge, developers can significantly enhance inference speeds while maintaining accuracy. What is Domain Knowledge Injection? Domain knowledge injection involves leveraging attention mechanisms or fusion techniques to integrate domain-specific information into pre-trained models. This allows the model to learn from both general and specialized knowledge, enabling it to better understand and process media data. By injecting domain-specific knowledge, developers can: Fine-tune models for specific applications: Domain knowledge injection enables the adaptation of pre-trained models to specific use cases, such as vide... This post was originally shared as an AI/ML insight. Follow me for more expert content on artificial intelligence and machine learning.  ( 6 min )

‘Halloween II’ Deep Dive with Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan & Van Lathan The Ringer crew reunites to revisit John Carpenter’s 1981 sequel, debating whether Michael Myers truly earns GOAT status as horror’s ultimate boogeyman. They trade hot takes on the film’s most rewatchable moments and even break into playful “best-of” categories for scares, kills, and more. With timestamps guiding you from the cold open (0:00) through the big villain debate (1:41), standout scene breakdown (33:13), and final awards round (55:51), it’s a quick, fun ride through one of horror’s classic follow-ups. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 7 – In the Mood for Love In episode 7 of their “25 Best Movies of the 21st Century” series, Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins celebrate Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love, calling it the signature romance of the century. They unpack how its meticulously composed frames and lush visuals create a simmering tension that still inspires filmmakers today. Beyond its stunning aesthetics, the hosts argue that the film’s true power lies in the ache of unfulfilled desire—something that feels more poignant than ever in our modern world. Produced by Jack Sanders, this conversation spotlights why longing can be the most resonant emotion on screen. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just dropped “Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less,” playfully tearing apart Tim Burton’s stop-motion dog tale—even though they openly love it—thanks to a theatrical re-release from Guillermo del Toro. Expect snarky “sins” and plenty of loving jabs at everyone’s favorite resurrected pooch. They also plug the usual CinemaSins empire: a link hub for all their channels, invites to join polls and Discord, and a shout-out to their Patreon. Writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel get name-checked, and you can stalk them on Twitter, TikTok, Reddit and more. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Final Destination: Bloodlines in 24 Minutes or Less is a tongue-in-cheek Cinemasins video, sponsored by BetterHelp for therapy, poking fun at the series’ signature “fun nonsense.” The film’s code and predictable kills get the usual rapid-fire sins tally. The description also plugs Cinemasins’ website, Linktree, and YouTube spinoff channels, invites viewers to take a “sinful” poll and support the team on Patreon, and lists their writers and social channels (Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, TikTok). Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins has rolled out “Everything Wrong With Longlegs In 24 Minutes Or Less,” a bite-sized roast of Nicolas Cage’s wild turn in the thriller Longlegs. With Osgood Perkins’ Keeper on the horizon, they couldn’t resist revisiting all the absurd moments—especially those conspicuously long limbs. For more sins (and behind-the-scenes fun), hit their site or linktr.ee, fill out the quick poll, and consider backing them on Patreon. You can also catch CinemaSins on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, TikTok and beyond! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Introduction Dark mode is everywhere, from mobile apps to developer tools and websites. It’s sleek, power-efficient, and easier on the eyes for many users. But there’s a catch: most dark mode designs aren’t accessible. Poor contrast, harsh text, and invisible icons make them difficult to use for people with visual impairments, and tiring for everyone else. In this guide, you’ll build your own accessible dark mode layout from scratch, learning best practices as you go. By the end, you’ll know how to design, test, and implement dark mode that’s both stylish and inclusive. You will be able to build interchangable theme as seen bellow: Before you begin, ensure you meet a few basic requirements to follow this guide smoothly. These will help you understand each step and build your own accessi…  ( 12 min )

Unlocking the Secrets of Transformers: The Power of Self-Attention Scoring Efficiency (SASE) In the realm of natural language processing (NLP), Transformers have revolutionized the way we approach language understanding and generation. At the heart of their success lies a crucial metric: Self-Attention Scoring Efficiency (SASE). This metric is a game-changer in evaluating the model's ability to focus on relevant input tokens while elegantly ignoring irrelevant ones. What is SASE? SASE measures the efficiency of self-attention mechanisms in Transformers. Self-attention allows the model to weigh the importance of each input token relative to the others, enabling it to focus on the most relevant information. By calculating the ratio of relevant attention scores to total attention scores, SASE provides a quantitative measure of the model's ability to selectively attend to key tokens. Why is SASE important? A higher SASE score (> 0.8) is a strong indicator of a model's a... This post was originally shared as an AI/ML insight. Follow me for more expert content on artificial intelligence and machine learning.  ( 6 min )

TL;DR Traditional APM tools (Datadog/New Relic) tell me about infra and API health, not why an agent chose the wrong tool or produced a bad answer. LLM observability platforms (LangSmith/Arize) expose traces, but I still had to manually review thousands of them. Recently, I tried Agent Compass. It: Clusters similar failures so I debug categories, not one-off traces. Maps symptoms to likely root causes (retrieval drift, tool thresholds, prompt regressions, guardrail friction, etc.). Suggests actionable fixes** and lets me validate them quickly. Below is my step-by-step flow, the checks I run, and the way I confirm the fix. Why agents are hard to debug (the short version) Dynamic paths. Unlike classic request→response code, agents branch, call tools, and recover on the fly—creating thousands…  ( 7 min )

From dark data to bright insights: The dawn of smart storage Manjul Sahay for Google AI ・ Oct 29 #ai #data #webdev #cloud  ( 5 min )

This is a followup to the following article: Load balancing Cypress tests without Cypress Cloud. Months ago, I built a simple load balancer for the Cypress testing framework. While others exist, like the really well-designed cypress-split and an existing one in paid Cypress Cloud, I set out to see how to improve and combine all the necessary commands into one package. Originally, tests were balancing using a "round-robin" algorithm, but after time, I found that the extremes between the highs and lows from the process execution times to be inefficient. Thus, I set out to improve upon this with a new approach. Everything below defines specifically version 0.2.9 of the “cypress-load-balancer” NPM package; please note it may change over time from how it is described here. I feel confident that…  ( 16 min )

If you've been searching for the "Apple Liquid Glass" style, you're in the right place. You may already be familiar with traditional "glassmorphism," the popular design trend that uses backdrop-filter: blur() to create a frosted glass look.This article introduces the "Apple Liquid Glass" technique, a new way to achieve a more realistic and dynamic result. We'll break down how to create its signature rippling distortion using a clever combination of layered HTML elements, CSS, and a powerful SVG filter. We'll be referencing the code from the "Glassmorphism Music Player" example. The Core Concept: Stacking Layers The entire effect relies on stacking four distinct layers on top of each other using CSS positioning and z-index. Imagine it like a sandwich: Content (Top Layer, z-index: 3) - Your …  ( 8 min )

If you’ve ever thought about starting your own online store, chances are you’ve heard of Shopify. This platform has become a go-to for many entrepreneurs looking to sell their products online. Not only is it user-friendly, but it also offers a ton of features that can help you run a successful ecommerce business. So, let’s dive into what Shopify ecommerce is all about! Shopify is a cloud-based ecommerce platform that allows you to create your own online store without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2006, Shopify has grown to become one of the leading ecommerce solutions worldwide. Whether you're selling handmade crafts, clothing, or digital products, Shopify provides a robust framework to help you get started. User-Friendly Interface: Shopify’s dashboard is easy to navigate, making…  ( 8 min )

Master YAML in 2024: Complete Learning Guide for DevOps Engineers 🚀 YAML is everywhere in DevOps - from Kubernetes manifests to CI/CD pipelines, Docker Compose to Ansible playbooks. Yet many developers struggle with its nuances. This comprehensive guide will take you from YAML basics to advanced concepts with hands-on examples. This guide covers everything you need to master YAML: ✅ 12 Progressive Chapters - From basics to advanced concepts ✅ Hands-on Examples - Copy-paste ready code ✅ Interview Questions - 25+ questions with answers ✅ Real DevOps Use Cases - Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/yuvrajkarna2717/DevOps # Basic data types app_name: FocusPilot # String version: 1.0 # Number active: true # Boolean null_…  ( 12 min )

GitHub Home I'll never forget that afternoon. We had just launched a new feature allowing users to upload their profile pictures. Everything seemed perfect. Until one user, whether intentionally or not, tried to upload a 2GB movie file from his computer. 🎬 The server's memory monitor instantly turned red, CPU usage shot up to 100%, and then, the entire service crashed and burned. 😵‍💫 Why? Because our rudimentary web framework tried to read the entire uploaded file into memory for processing. A 2GB request body instantly blew up our small server, which only had 4GB of memory. This is a classic, and extremely painful, "rookie mistake." Handling files, whether uploading or downloading, is one of the most common requirements in web development. But precisely because it's common, we often ov…  ( 9 min )

After months of building your product, you’re finally ready to show it to the world. But there’s one big question: how do you present it to your users? Yes, you guessed it. Video is the best way to engage your audience. Studies show that the average viewer watches only a few seconds of a product demo before skipping. So, the challenge is clear: how do you create a product demo video that actually holds attention? Let’s walk through how you can create product demo videos that look professional and convert viewers into customers. Why Product Demo Videos Matter A good demo helps your users understand exactly what your product does without reading long descriptions or guides. Whether you’re launching a SaaS, mobile app, or any digital product, showing it in action is the best way to build trus…  ( 7 min )

Hi there! AI is shrinking the amount of code many of us write. The real leverage of a software engineer, more than knowing a specific programming language or framework, comes from making the right decisions. Not only in software engineering, but also in life: as information is more readily available than ever before, the barrier to making good decisions isn't about having access to data, but about knowing how to process it. However, every day we make dozens of calls with bias-prone brains. How can we make better decisions, not only as software engineers, but in our lives? In this blog post, I give 10 tips that work for me when I have to make a difficult decision. The first response to a situation is usually discomfort and a sense of urgency. Avoiding to take a rushed decision and sleeping …  ( 10 min )

The Fundamental Problem with Integration Debt We all know the cost of Integration Debt. It's the sprawling collection of unmanaged APIs, brittle custom code, and hard-coded business logic that slows velocity and increases risk. For years, we've focused on re-platforming as the cure—but we were treating the symptom, not the cause. The truth is, Integration Debt is fundamentally a data governance problem disguised as a coding problem. It's the failure to guarantee the integrity of data between systems. Now, with the rise of Autonomous AI Agents, this debt becomes a catastrophic risk. An agent operating at machine speed against fragmented, ungoverned data pipelines will automate and accelerate failure. To move from chaos to control, the solution is structural: the Data Contract Engine (DCE). The DCE is the non-negotiable architectural layer that enforces policy and integrity at the point of data transfer. It guarantees that every single data exchange adheres to a defined, auditable, and secure standard. This solves three critical problems inherent in Integration Debt: Eliminates Schema Drift: The DCE validates data at runtime, preventing unexpected input from breaking downstream services (or AI agents). Enforces Policy: It ensures that security policies, governance rules (GDPR, SOX), and business logic are checked before the data is accepted. Creates Auditability: It provides the verifiable log and decision point required to track every agent action, closing the 'Accountability Gap.' If you're building in the Agent Mesh—or simply trying to survive the sheer volume of data exchange—you need to shift your focus from passive routing to active data governance. The DCE is the operational manifestation of that shift. I break down the architecture, vendor landscape, and the strategic mandate for building this Data Contract Engine here: 👉 Read the Full Deep Dive on the Data Contract Engine #IntegrationDebt #APIs #DataGovernance #EnterpriseArchitecture #DataFlow  ( 7 min )

There are several tools to verify that images are correctly formatted and signed. The xxd utility creates a hex dump of binary files, which can be used to examine image headers and TLV structures. xxd -l 32 zephyr.signed.bin 00000000: 3db8 f396 0000 0000 0002 0000 c8ee 0000 =............... 00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 3db8f396 : magic number (0x96f3b83d) 00000000 : load address 0002 : header length (0x0200 = 512Bytes) 0000 : protected TLV length c8ee0000 : image size (0xeec8 = 6128 Bytes) TLV offset = 0x0200 + 0xeec8 = 0xf0c8 xxd -s 0xf0c8 -l 128 zephyr.signed.bin 0000f0c8: 0769 2800 1000 2000 13d3 f70b 5ac5 9719 .i(... .....Z... 0000f0d8: 1ce7 f6c6 dd30 e79f b437 1ed1 e606 a4cb .....0...7...... 0000f0e8: 855c c397 a0a8 667d ffff ffff f…  ( 8 min )

Managing state is one of the most confusing parts for new React developers — we often wonder: “Should this be a state, a prop, or a ref?” In this post, I’ll break down a simple decision-making process to know when to create state and where to put it — using my own small project called Listo 🛒, a packing list app built with React. Ask yourself a few questions before creating new state. 1️⃣ Do I need to store some data? ❌ No: Just use a normal variable. const total = price * quantity; ✅ Yes: Go to the next question. 2️⃣ Can this data be computed from existing state or props? If yes, then don’t store it separately — derive it instead. Example: const packedCount = items.filter(item => item.packed).length; No need to store packedCount in useState; it’s derived from items. 3️⃣ Shou…  ( 8 min )

If you want to set a dynamic page title in React, you can just put a title tag inside your component. But there’s a catch: ⚠️ Only one title should be rendered at a time. If more than one component adds a title at once, React will put all of them in the head, which can cause unexpected behavior in the browser and affect SEO. {/* ❌ 𝚆𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 */} 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 ${𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎}} The first one ends up creating an array (["Bookings", page]) instead of a string, so it doesn’t work properly. Using a template literal fixes it.  ( 6 min )

Angular 21 goes with Vitest. A clear decision after years of uncertainty - and new discussions emerge around content projection. ⚡️ Angular Chooses Vitest The decision about the future testing framework has finally been made: it’s going to be Vitest. Starting with Angular 21, Vitest becomes the default testing framework. So when you run ng new, Vitest will be selected by default – not Jasmine. The best thing about this decision is not Vitest itself. For more than two years, we didn’t really know which testing framework we should use – especially for new projects. There was the official Jasmine/Karma combination. But it was always said that Jasmine would be supported, while Karma would not. For Karma, a potential replacement was the Modern Web Test Runner. As a second su…  ( 8 min )

Introduction: A New Era of Heating Control Home heating has evolved far beyond thermostats and timers. The rise of smart home technology is transforming how heating systems are installed, monitored, and maintained. From connected thermostats that “learn” your habits to remote diagnostics that prevent breakdowns before they happen, homeowners and HVAC professionals are experiencing a shift that combines efficiency, comfort, and intelligence. This guide explores how smart home tech is reshaping heating system management—offering a glimpse into the future of energy-efficient, data-driven homes. When people think of smart heating, they often picture smart thermostats like Nest or Ecobee. But today’s systems go much further. Modern smart heating systems include connected boilers, heat p…  ( 9 min )

GitHub Home In our toolbox, there are always a few "star" tools. 🛠️ In the realm of real-time web communication, WebSocket is undoubtedly the brightest star. It's powerful, supports bidirectional communication, and has become the "default answer" for almost all real-time needs. So, when a product manager comes to you and says, "Hey, we need a dashboard that updates in real-time!" the first thing that pops into many programmers' minds is: "Okay, let's use WebSockets!" But, wait a minute. ✋ As an old-timer who has been navigating this world for decades, I want to ask: do we always need a "Swiss Army knife" to peel an apple? 🍎 I've seen too many scenarios where a simple feature that only requires unidirectional data push from the server to the client—like site notifications, stock price upd…  ( 9 min )

Essa é uma submissão para o Desafio de escrita do Hacktoberfest 2025: Reflexões sobre Open Source. README.md legal Esse arquivo é basicamente a vitrine do seu projeto. Então faz sentido que você dedique um tempo nele, deixando-o completo, contando com descrição do projeto, como executá-lo (caso seja código), versionamento, como usá-lo etc. CONTRIBUTING.md Esse será um dos arquivos principais. É nele que você vai adicionar as orientações de como as pessoas podem contribuir com o seu projeto. E quanto mais completo, melhor será. Você pode incluir que a pessoa precisa, por exemplo, fazer um fork do projeto, criar uma branch para contribuição, colocar as regras de como nomear a branch, os commits, as pull requests, adicionar exemplos de contribuição, entre outras coisas que ajudam a padronizar e deixar o projeto mais organizado e recebendo contribuições relevantes. Se você já tem uma ideia de quais funcionalidades ou correções poderiam ser feitas no projeto, essa é uma boa forma de documentá-las. A comunidade pode escolher entre as issues disponíveis para desenvolvê-las. E, claro, as pessoas também podem criar novas issues para discussão da relevância da contribuição que a pessoa quer fazer. Assim, antes da pessoa ter todo o trabalho de fazer a alteração, vocês chegam num acordo se aquela alteração faz sentido ou não. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md do projeto Pode ser legal ter um arquivo com o código de conduta, assim as pessoas sabem como contribuir da melhor forma para aquele projeto, entendendo quais são as regras. Basicamente, adicionando as orientações de se manter o respeito nas contribuições e nas discussões dessas contribuições, entre outras. E você, tem mais dicas de como deixar o projeto o mais amigável possível para as pessoas saberem como contribuir com ele? Deixe nos comentários a sua contribuição!  ( 7 min )

Recently, I’ve been travelling around the country to help engineers learn how to build MCP Servers and AI Agents serverlessly on Cloud Run in our Accelerate AI with Cloud Run workshops. Attendees often ask, how can I use what I learned in my use case? This blog tells the story of how I used the first hands-on lab from that workshop to build something that saves me time and effort in my real day-to-day work! As a co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, I love the conversations and learning about cool technology and use cases. But like with any content series, there’s so much time and effort that goes into running and publishing each episode. In this article, I explain how and why I built an MCP server to simplify and speed up our publishing process. You can also try out my solution y…  ( 14 min )

Finch squared off against Carlisle GC’s head pro in a high-stakes £1,000 match for Episode 2, all backed by Titleist. Not only are they sponsoring the series, but they’re also supporting Carlisle’s junior section off the back of this showdown. Huge shout-out to Nicky and the whole Carlisle GC crew for hosting and making it such a blast. For the nitty-gritty on the course or Finch’s kit and apparel, check out the links to Titleist, Carlisle Golf Club, and Finch Golf Media—plus there’s a sweet discount if you’re looking to gear up. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

A meetup with a great audience and tons of high-quality content, that’s the best way to describe the last edition of Munich TypeScript: Show Your Stack, very well organized by Carl Assmann at Netlight. The idea from Carl for building the agenda was great, and I was happy to be part of it too. There were three talks in total: Building on a Budget, A NextJS Application powered by Free Tiers, Pascal Bawidamann End-to-end Effect, Sebastian Lorenz Micro frontend with Vite and Module Federation, Jhonatan Morais The topics were very rich, full of insights about how to use tools in smart ways. Pascal Bawidamann opened the event showing his Recipe App and how to save hundreds of $$$ in the early stages of your projects. Next came Sebastian Lorenz, introducing the powerful Effect library. It was my first time seeing it, and I was really impressed by everything it offers, error management, observability, pub/sub, caching, and more. I’ve been reading about it since then and definitely recommend you try it out. Finally, the last talk was mine :D I spoke about the initial micro frontend stack with Vite and how to take your first steps in this architecture, which can be really useful to organize your internal projects and products. You can check out my example repo if you want to see how I set everything up. After the talks, I got to chat with many participants who had questions about the topic. It was super productive, and for me, the main takeaway was to learn more about Effect, I think this tool has a lot of potential. That’s it, see you at the next event!  ( 6 min )

In this Ringer podcast episode, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan reunite to dissect Halloween II (1981), debating if Michael Myers earns GOAT-horror-villain status, spotlighting their most rewatchable scene, and hashing out fan-favorite categories—all neatly timestamped for easy listening. Along the way, the crew tips its hat to producers Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nair, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo, and slips in sponsor shout-outs for Mountain of Movies® on Paramount+, Netflix’s A House of Dynamite, and State Farm. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Ringer-verse and Bill Simmons channels for more deep dives. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back with a lighthearted takedown of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie—pointing out every “sin” and quirk in under 14 minutes, complete with their classic jokes and pop-culture digs. Along the way, they drop links to their main site, Instagram, Discord, TikTok, Reddit and patreon.com/cinemasins, plus a quick poll to learn more about fans. Shout-out to writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel—and don’t forget to follow them on social for more movie mischief! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just tore into Final Destination: Bloodlines—counting up every bit of “fun nonsense” in under 24 minutes. Expect snarky commentary, classic over-the-top deaths and plenty of “sins” to keep you chuckling through the chaos. They’re sponsored by BetterHelp (grab a discount at their link), and you’ll find plugs for all things CinemaSins: YouTube channels (@TVSins, @CommercialSins), a Linktree for updates, a quick poll to share your thoughts, Patreon support, Discord, Reddit, and social handles for the writers. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Longlegs In 24 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins takes on Nicolas Cage’s Longlegs with their trademark snark, counting up all the wild plot holes, bizarre character choices, and—yes—those extraordinarily long legs, all before the clock hits 24 minutes. They’re rolling out the sins just in time to hype Osgood Perkins’ next horror outing, Keeper. Want more sinful fun? Check out their Linktree for socials, take their poll, or back the team on Patreon. You’ll find them everywhere from Twitter and Instagram to Discord, Reddit, and TikTok. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

AI agents can reason. They can plan, summarize, and even write SQL. But they can’t fix messy data. That gap between reasoning and reality is where most AI projects stall, not because the models don’t work, but because the data underneath them is too fragmented to think with. Every company wants to give their business users an AI assistant that can answer questions like: "Which campaigns drove the most revenue this quarter?" Or even more ambitious: "If we increase ad spend by 10% across platforms, what happens to conversion cost?" The problem isn’t the prompt. It’s that the model has to reason over conflicting definitions of “campaign,” multiple “revenue” columns, and data scattered across CRMs, ad tools, and spreadsheets. The result is confident answers that are wrong. Large lang…  ( 9 min )

Predator – Caravan of Garbage kicks off with the ram-slammed ’87 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, lauded as the pinnacle of ’80s action-sci-fi chaos: mud, muscles, lasers, explosions, invisibility cloaks and a perfectly designed alien hunter. The hosts geek out over the direction, writing, cast chemistry and creature effects that make this film an absolute blast. Beyond the review, they plug early access and bonus content on bigsandwich.co, an extended audio edition on YouTube, plus their social channels for tweets, merch, Patreon perks and more weekly planet madness. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Inside the Transformer Architecture: The Core of Modern AI The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of Artificial Intelligence, becoming the foundation for state-of-the-art models in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, and beyond. This article delves into the core of this powerful architecture, exploring its purpose, key features, and providing a practical code example. Purpose: The primary purpose of the Transformer is to process sequences of data, such as text or images, while effectively capturing long-range dependencies. Unlike Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) which process data sequentially, Transformers utilize parallel processing, significantly improving training speed and scalability. This allows them to understand context and relationships betwee…  ( 8 min )

So I have this very specific need: removing accents from generated anchors with Hugo. To my knowledge, there is no accent in English, but other languages contain plenty of them. For example, in French, it gives: The problem is that if you use {{ .TableOfContents }} to generate a table of contents for your posts, anchors have to be exactly same as those generated in {{ .Content }}. Therefore, it's not possible to manually filter headings or override them in layouts. This global configuration seems effective: [markup] [markup.goldmark] [markup.goldmark.parser] autoHeadingIDType = 'github-ascii' This config is similar to the default autoHeadingIDType (github), but it removes non-ASCII characters. Now, I get:  ( 6 min )

Introduction In this post, I want to share some JavaScript behaviors that often seem nonsensical at first, but actually reveal something about the language’s nature. Understanding them can help us avoid mistakes — and even take advantage of them. The following examples are inspired by the book Eloquent JavaScript and by the quiz on JS is Weird web's site. jsdata.wtf that shows unexpected, or not so much, behaviors of the Date object. So: true + false === 1 Boolean values are converted into their numeric counterparts: Number(true); // -> 1 Number(false); // -> 0 1 + 0; // -> 1 !!"" === false The double exclamation mark (double NOT) converts any value to its corresponding boolean, based on its truthiness or falsiness, just like the Boolean() function : !!""; // -> false ("" is falsy…  ( 8 min )

If you’ve downloaded Goose for Windows and launched it straight from goose.exe, you’ve probably noticed it runs smoothly — until your system starts feeling heavy. Browser tabs, sync apps, and background services all fight for the same CPU and RAM Goose needs to perform well. In this article, I’ll share my real-world performance optimization journey running Goose on a Windows laptop, including actual PowerShell benchmarks, configuration fixes, and verified results. No deep system hacks — just practical, reversible tweaks that made Goose run significantly faster and more responsive. Before tuning anything, I gathered raw system data to understand what was slowing Goose down. Here’s the baseline snapshot captured via PowerShell and Task Manager: Top Processes by CPU Usage OneDrive — 1118.29s …  ( 8 min )

Introducing httprecon3: The Ultimate Stealthy Recon Tool for Bug Bounty Hunters and Pentesters By l0n3ly! October 29, 2025 Cross-posted on DEV.to: https://dev.to/l0n3ly In the fast-evolving world of cybersecurity, reconnaissance remains the cornerstone of any successful penetration test or bug bounty hunt. Tools like Subfinder, Amass, or even basic wget crawlers have their place, but what if you could combine deep web crawling, secret detection, subdomain enumeration, screenshot capture, and AI-powered insights—all in a single, stealthy Python script? Enter httprecon3, a fresh open-source powerhouse that's set to streamline your recon workflow like never before. Launched today on GitHub by security researcher l0n3ly! (that's me—feel free to ping me on Discord at l0n3ly_natasha), httpr…  ( 8 min )

HTTP/3 Complete Tutorial: From Theory to Implementation Introduction HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, representing a fundamental shift in how web communication works. Unlike its predecessors, HTTP/3 runs over QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) instead of TCP, offering significant performance improvements, especially in unreliable network conditions. Zero Round-Trip Time (0-RTT): Faster connection establishment Improved multiplexing: No head-of-line blocking at transport layer Better connection migration: Seamless network switching (WiFi to cellular) Built-in encryption: Mandatory TLS 1.3 Reduced latency: Especially noticeable on lossy networks timeline title HTTP Protocol Evolution 1991 : HTTP/0.9 - Simple one-line protocol 1…  ( 14 min )

On-prem test intra tools are becoming essential for enterprises with strict compliance needs.As modern development teams embrace cloud-based CI/CD and automation pipelines, many organizations still face a hard reality — not everything can go to the cloud. Whether it’s data security, compliance, latency, or network isolation, many enterprises (especially in sectors like BFSI, defense, and telecom) need to run their testing environments inside their own infrastructure. That’s where on-prem test intra tools, a core part of self-hosted testing platforms that run entirely within your local network. This article lists the top categories and on-prem testing tools that support secure, scalable on-premises (intra-network) testing, helping you choose the right stack for secure, scalable, and complia…  ( 9 min )

GitHub: https://github.com/dromara/easy-query Documentation: https://www.easy-query.com/easy-query-doc/en/ Let me show you a problem first. Here's how you query data with traditional Java ORMs: // JPA Criteria API - Runtime strings, no type safety CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder(); CriteriaQuery cq = cb.createQuery(User.class); Root user = cq.from(User.class); cq.where(cb.and( cb.equal(user.get("name"), "John"), // String reference! cb.greaterThan(user.get("age"), 18) // Typo? Find out at runtime! )); What if I told you it could look like this instead? // easy-query - Compile-time safety, fluent API List users = easyEntityQuery.queryable(User.class) .where(user -> { user.name().eq("John"); // Full IntelliSense support user.age(…  ( 11 min )

Learn To Talk to Non-Tech People in Your Team Cesar Aguirre ・ Dec 2 '24 #career #careerdevelopment #softwareengineering #beginners  ( 6 min )

You can now build, host, and ship full ChatGPT apps directly inside Gadget, no setup required. ✅ChatGPT Apps SDK integrated Go from idea → live app in hours. ChatGPT apps are a new kind of web app: they live directly inside ChatGPT, reaching 800M+ monthly users. No tabs, no redirects, no context switching. This is a huge opportunity for B2C and B2B app developers. But building one from scratch isn’t simple. Aside from the core functionality of your app, you need to build an MCP server, OAuth for user authentication, and set up frontend embedding in accordance with ChatGPT's API guidelines. This is a lot of setup and boilerplate work. Luckily, Gadget’s new template takes care of all of that for you. Connecting your Gadget app to ChatGPT literally takes 10 seconds: You copy/paste your App URL directly into ChatGPT You authenticate yourself as a user using the email/password or Google SSO authentication options that the template has built in You’re fully set up and ready to customize your app 🎥 (Video demos coming soon — including the connection flow, HMR preview, and example apps.) The ChatGPT ecosystem is still young, but the opportunity is enormous. Gadget gives developers a way to explore it without friction. Build faster, ship faster, and reach users where they already are. 👉 Start building today: https://gadget.new https://gadget.dev/blog/build-chatgpt-apps  ( 6 min )

CVE ID CVE-2022-22947 VMware Spring Cloud Gateway Code Injection Vulnerability Project: VMware Product: Spring Cloud Gateway Date Date Added: 2022-05-16 Due Date: 2022-06-06 Spring Cloud Gateway applications are vulnerable to a code injection attack when the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured. Unknown Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22947 Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) List  ( 6 min )

I totally understand why people keep looking for new approaches to routing and state management in React. Apparently, these tasks can be solved in multiple ways focusing on different aspects, which is fine. But among the several common solutions (and several less common ones), I can't find a direct approach following the common patterns, which leaves me with the questions at the basickest level: Can routing be as simple as regular conditional rendering, which route-based rendering essentially is? Can route-based rendering be the same with components and prop values? Again, like conditional rendering. Unlike having a separate file, a config, or a component to render an app component based on a route, but going for a route matching hook to render a prop value based on the route. Do we really need a custom component API, while there's an all-familiar HTML API? Is it inevitable that local and shared state being conceptually similar things are handled so differently, requiring significant refactors to migrate from one to the other even with the slimmest state management libs? With these questions having lingered for a while, I came up with a couple of small packages for React apps in an attempt to address these questions and to make a case for the direct approach: t8.js.org Along the way I came up with a router for vanilla TS/JS, too. Let me know what you think of this.  ( 6 min )

GitHub: easy-query | Stars: 687+ | License: Apache 2.0 Documentation: Official Docs If you've used Entity Framework Core in .NET and wish Java had something similar, easy-query might be what you're looking for. It's a type-safe, strongly-typed ORM that brings the best of EF Core's API design to the Java ecosystem. Let's be honest - while JPA/Hibernate is powerful, it has some pain points: // Traditional JPA/Hibernate CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder(); CriteriaQuery cq = cb.createQuery(User.class); Root user = cq.from(User.class); cq.select(user) .where(cb.and( cb.equal(user.get("name"), "John"), cb.greaterThan(user.get("age"), 18) )); List results = em.createQuery(cq).getResultList(); Issues: ❌ String-based field references ("name", "age") - no co…  ( 11 min )

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The Booth Vol.23 | Trap Draw, Ep 365 TL;DR Cody and Neil kick off this episode by swapping mea culpas (and asking the audience for theirs), then dive into Neil’s big move to the suburbs, the eternal hardware-store showdown, their current watchlists, and the wild world of social-media feedback. They also celebrate Neil’s recent panel appearance at Columbia and drop a few more surprises along the way. They round things out by championing the Evans Scholars Foundation, shouting out sponsors like ServPro, Rhoback, and Stone Creek Coffee, and plugging the No Laying Up Newsletter, YouTube channel, and The Nest membership—your all-access pass to fewer ads, exclusive content, pro-shop discounts, and an annual gift. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

In every dataset, whether from surveys, financial models, or customer behavior studies, there are underlying forces shaping how variables behave. Often, these patterns are not directly visible. For example, in a demographic survey, people with similar lifestyles or life stages tend to respond in comparable ways — but the real reason behind this similarity is not always obvious. Married individuals might spend differently than singles, and parents might prioritize expenses differently from couples without children. What drives these behaviors could be a mix of income, education, locality, and other socio-economic factors. This hidden interplay of variables is exactly what Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) seeks to uncover. Instead of looking at each question or metric in isolation, EFA help…  ( 10 min )

When integrating an external frontend (in my case, an Angular SaaS app) with a WooCommerce webshop, I hit a surprisingly common wall: JWT authentication just didn’t work across domains. Cookies were rejected, sessions lost, and SameSite=None turned into a silent killer of cross-domain checkout flows. Even worse, WordPress refused to authenticate inside an iframe, breaking payment links and embedded logins. WordPress and modern SPAs (Angular, React, Vue, etc.) live in different worlds: Different domains Different cookie scopes Different CORS / SameSite rules Standard JWT or SSO plugins for WordPress usually fail here because: They rely on wp_set_auth_cookie, which respects SAMEORIGIN by default They don’t allow SameSite=None; Secure cookies They assume same-domain requests So, even…  ( 7 min )

‘Halloween II’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan reunite to rewatch John Carpenter’s 1981 sequel, Halloween II, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. They dive into whether Michael Myers deserves GOAT status in the horror world, debate the film’s most rewatchable moments, and hand out quirky award categories that only true slasher fans would appreciate. Timestamps: • 00:00 Cold Open • 1:41 Is Michael Myers the GOAT Horror Movie Villain? • 33:13 Most Rewatchable Scene • 55:51 The Categories Brought to you by Paramount+ (“A Mountain of Movies®”), Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite” (Oct 24), and State Farm. Follow The Ringer for more film takes! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Final Destination: Bloodlines in 24 Minutes or Less CinemaSins delivers their trademark rapid‐fire sin tally of Final Destination: Bloodlines, poking fun at the movie’s “fun nonsense” while still admiring the franchise’s twisted logic. It’s sponsored by BetterHelp, and along the way they shout out their website, YouTube channels, Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, a sinful poll, Patreon support, plus writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, and Daniel. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Longlegs is CinemaSins’ latest roast of Nicolas Cage’s wild turn in the horror flick Longlegs, clocking in at just under 24 minutes of “sins” while teasing Osgood Perkins’ upcoming Keeper. Expect snarky commentary on those impossibly long legs and Cage’s signature on-screen insanity. Don’t forget to swing by cinemasins.com or their Linktree for more videos, join the sinful poll, and support the team on Patreon. You can also catch them on YouTube (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork), Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok—and dive into Jeremy’s book if you’re really into movie sins. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predator – Caravan of Garbage kicks off a four-week deep dive into the first four Predator films, starting with the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. The hosts hype it as the ultimate 80s mash-up of big muscles, mud, lasers and cheeky invisibility shenanigans, celebrating its perfect storm of direction, writing, cast chemistry and creature design. If you’re hungry for more behind-the-scenes chatter, early video drops, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries and video-game let’s-plays, they’ve got you covered through their Big Sandwich membership, Patreon perks and weekly Planet podcast—plus a stash of merch and social-media hijinks for die-hard PredHeads. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Evolution of a Clone Function: A Journey in Developer Experience As developers, we spend a significant portion of our day performing repetitive tasks. One of the most common? Cloning repositories. While git clone works perfectly fine, there's always room to improve our workflows. This article chronicles the evolution of a custom clone function—a shell utility that started simple and grew more sophisticated as real-world needs emerged. This isn't just a story about shell scripting. It's a case study in iterative development, user experience design, and the engineering mindset of continuously improving our tools. Before we dive into the code, let's understand the problem. When working with GitHub repositories, developers typically: Copy a repository URL from GitHub Open their terminal …  ( 12 min )

Αφού ολοκληρώσαμε τον σχεδιασμό της αρχιτεκτονικής, στο άρθρο Εισαγωγή στο Clean Architecture το σύστημα είναι έτοιμο να δεχτεί τα πρώτα του αιτήματα. Το Clean Architecture solution μας έχει σαφώς διαχωρισμένα layers: το Domain layer ορίζει τις οντότητες και τα interfaces των repositories, το Application layer διαχειρίζεται την επιχειρησιακή λογική μέσω services και DTOs, ενώ το Infrastructure layer υλοποιεί τις βάσεις δεδομένων και την πρόσβαση στα δεδομένα μέσω Entity Framework. Τώρα, το επόμενο βήμα είναι η δημιουργία του Presentation layer, δηλαδή του API, το οποίο θα λειτουργεί ως η “εισόδος” για τον έξω κόσμο, είτε αυτός είναι ένας front-end client είτε εργαλεία δοκιμής όπως το Postman ή το Swagger. Στο Presentation layer, οι controllers είναι υπεύθυνοι να μεταφράζουν τα αιτήματα HTT…  ( 7 min )

Hey Devs👋 In this article, I’ll be sharing some of the most powerful and developer-friendly CLI tools which are completely open-source! ✨Open-source projects rely on community support 🙏, so consider exploring these projects and giving star to these repositories to contribute to their growth.🙂 Now, Let's get started🚀 1. Qodo Command Qodo Gen Command is a command-line interface for running and managing AI agents. It allows you to automate complex workflows, interact with AI models and external tools using your own tools and schemas, and serve AI agents as HTTP services, all from your terminal. You can use it to: Talk to an agent in natural language directly in your terminal (qodo chat), exactly like with Qodo Gen Chat. Configure your own agent and define reusable workflows (qodo <co…  ( 10 min )

Code review is one of the most valuable and time-consuming activities in software development. Done well, it catches bugs, spreads knowledge, and maintains code quality. Done poorly, it becomes a bottleneck that slows delivery and frustrates teams. Enter goose, Block's open source AI agent that can transform how you approach code review. This guide will show you how to build effective prompts and workflows that leverage goose to enhance your code review process while maintaining the human judgment that makes reviews valuable. New to goose prompting? Check out Best Practices for Prompt Engineering with goose to master the fundamentals before diving into these code review-specific techniques. Before diving into prompts and workflows, let's understand what makes goose uniquely suited for code…  ( 26 min )

In this article + demo video, I introduce JPlus, a Java superset that runs on the JVM and extends Java’s syntax naturally. If you’ve ever wished Java had null safety, concise data classes, or type inference — JPlus aims to provide all of that, while staying 100% compatible with Java. 🎥 Watch the IntelliJ plugin demo 🔑 Key highlights Null safety at the language level apply syntax for boilerplate elimination Fully interoperable with Java Compiles to Java bytecode Check out the project and join the discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/nieuwmijnleven/JPlus  ( 6 min )

Ever wonder why your new iPhone or laptop feels like magic? It's all thanks to tiny semiconductor chips that power basically everything in our modern world. But here's the scary part: the entire global chip industry is built on a house of cards, with just a handful of companies controlling the most critical pieces. One disruption, and the whole thing could come tumbling down. Let me walk you through the most fragile supply chain in the world. There's a Dutch company called ASML that literally has a 100% monopoly on the machines needed to make the world's most advanced chips. We're talking about the chips in your iPhone 16, the latest AI systems, and even the processors in cutting-edge data centers.​ ASML EUV lithography machine operated by technicians in a cleanroom environment during sem…  ( 9 min )

A computer is a special program that converts source code into machine code(0s and 1s ) and that the computer can understand and execute. Process: 1.Lexical Analysis : Breaks code into small tokens 2.Syntax Analysis : Check if the code follows the rules 3.Sematic Analysis : Ensure the meaning is correct(variable used properly) 4.Optimization : Improve code efficiency and performance 5.Code Conversion : machine language to Assembly language 6.Code Linking : Combines all files library/files into a final executable program. Java - JAVAC C,C++ - GCC (GNC collection compiler)  ( 6 min )

Hello everyone! created another project and did all the usual stuff before getting to the new things this time i used delta time for movement which makes it independent from frame rate which i think is quite nice also in this project i decided to work with animations and see how they are in sfml precompiled headers were a thing, helps with the speed of loading the project and testing it also learned that when using delta time speed is SO SLOW cause it's pixels/sec so i had to give it a bigger number like 400 or sth also using int rect and chopping down the sprite sheet into small parts i was able to play each sprite frame by frame to get animations! so far only wrote for idle and walking animations next up would be implementing physics like gravity and speed and etc after that i should go back to the animations and write for the jumping and falling animations as well using the physics i made previously after these... i'm not sure what would follow in all honesty, i'll think of it when i get there i suppose That's all for this week, I hope you all are safe and sound. Stay healthy, stay lovely, and I'll see you all again next week!  ( 6 min )

A repeatable system that turned key prospects into steady revenue without ads, referrals, or unnecessary hustle. When I started consulting full-time, I didn’t have a safety net. No warm network to tap. No audience waiting to buy. Just experience, a laptop, and the challenge of figuring out how to get clients without spending my time chasing them. I knew I didn’t want to build a business around referrals or cold outreach. That kind of growth isn’t dependable. I wanted something repeatable, a system that worked even when I wasn’t actively selling. What follows is the exact approach I used to turn content into a client engine. It’s how I landed my first five clients, built over $600,000 in revenue, and created a model that still brings in new business today. Starting Without a Safety Net Whe…  ( 9 min )

Índice Introducción Creación de proyecto Instalacion y configuracion para testing básico Instalacion y configuracion para testing avanzado Consideraciones finales Conclusiones Referencias 1. Introducción El presente post es un ejemplo práctico de cómo crear y configurar un entorno de testing para frontend usando React, Vitest y TypeScript. El post no se enfoca en el uso de ninguna de estas tecnologías ni brinda ejemplos de testing, sólo se concentra en enseñar la creación de un ambiente de pruebas propicio y listo para usar. Dicho eso, comencemos. 2. Creación de proyecto El proyecto lo creamos con Vite, React + SWC y TypeScript haciendo uso de pnpm como gestor de dependencias. Posteriormente hacemos una limpieza del proyecto creado borrando archivos que no nos servirán para est…  ( 9 min )

Developers often ask themselves a few eternal questions: “Is PHP really the best language?” “Vim or Emacs?” And, of course — “Should my project use SQL or NoSQL?” This question might seem small, but it can make or break your project. Choose wisely, and development flows smoothly, data stays consistent, and life is good. Choose poorly, and you might end up working late nights fixing schema issues or performance bottlenecks — questioning your life choices. It’s a bit like dating — there’s no perfect partner, only the right one for you. SQL databases — the relational kind — are the orderly perfectionists of the data world. Everything fits neatly into tables with rows and columns. No chaos allowed. Famous examples include MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB. Before you start, you must def…  ( 8 min )

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In this article, I’ll show you how I use our BuildVu library to convert PDF files into HTML. As a developer, I’ve found BuildVu to be the best tool for turning PDFs into clean, browser-friendly HTML content. If you want to learn more about the PDF format or why converting PDF to HTML is so beneficial, I’ve also linked some detailed articles that explain these topics. PHP is widely used for building dynamic websites, and converting PDFs to HTML allows developers to display PDF content directly within a browser. Efficient PDF to HTML conversion allows PHP developers to automate workflows such as invoice generation, report display, and content extraction. Although the services can be accessed with standard HTTP requests, this tutorial uses our open-source PHP IDRCloudClient, which offers a st…  ( 7 min )

The first railroad bridge to span the Mississippi River was built between Davenport, IA, and Rock Island, IL in 1856. It burned down just 15 days later. It was the victim of a steamboat collision stemming from a simmering conflict between rival modes of commerce. In hindsight, this disaster wasn't a structural failure; it was a breakdown in communication and a clash of trust boundaries. Like that doomed bridge, many of our cybersecurity defenses are one misalignment away from collapse. Fixing those issues and making our systems more resilient was very top of mind for everyone who gathered in Davenport for CornCon 11.  Over 400 security practitioners gathered to take part in this three-day event that featured over 50 sessions from more than 70 subject matter experts, 4 workshops, and a capt…  ( 11 min )

Introduction. Kenya has made tremendous strides in making HIV preventive pills (often referred to as DP pills or PrEP) freely available across public and private clinics. Despite this accessibility, uptake and long-term adherence remain a pressing concern. While many individuals take the first dose, a significant number discontinue soon after the initial month. This report explores behavioral patterns behind these trends and suggests targeted interventions to boost continuation rates and overall effectiveness of the HIV prevention program. Who Is Using HIV Prevention Pills? The majority of those who received the pills were young women, particularly in their teens to early thirties. This age group represents Kenya’s most sexually active demographic and therefore plays …  ( 7 min )

import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class FizzBuzz { public static void main(String[] args) { FizzBuzz fizzBuzz = new FizzBuzz(); List result = fizzBuzz.fizzBuzz(15); System.out.println(result); } public List fizzBuzz(int n) { List result = new ArrayList(); for (int i=1; i<=n; i++) { if (i % 3 == 0 && i % 5 == 0) { result.add("FizzBuzz"); } else if (i % 3 == 0) { result.add("Fizz"); } else if (i % 5 == 0) { result.add("Buzz"); } else { result.add(i + ""); } } return result; } }  ( 6 min )

Hi DEV community 👋 🚀 Featured Projects Magic Space - Landing page with cosmic animations Recipe Page - Responsive recipe layout Blog Card - Modern card component Social links - Profile card QR Code - Component design 🛠️ Tech Stack 🧠 What I Learned Mobile-first approach Accessibility best practices Performance optimization Clean code principles 🎯 Portfolio: quiklydev.github.io/portfolio Currently, learning JavaScript. Feedback welcome!  ( 6 min )

A code review is meant to help teams write better code together. But when reviewers misuse the “Request Changes” button, it turns a learning process into a power move, and code reviews aren’t about control, they’re about collaboration. When you open a pull request, you’re saying "Hey, here’s my idea — what do you think?". You’re open to feedback (and hopefully expecting it). That’s how teams grow together and keep their codebase healthy. The Real Purpose of Code Reviews At their core, code reviews serve two simple principles: Write code for people, not machines. Your teammates should be able to understand your code without decoding your brain. Share knowledge and align understanding. Every review is a chance to spread context — not just spot mistakes. If your review doesn’t move the team…  ( 7 min )

Cody and Neil kick off The Booth Vol.23 with some honest mea culpas (and ask the audience to share theirs), then dive into Neil’s big move to the suburbs, their surprisingly fierce hardware-store loyalties, binge-worthy shows they’re watching, and how to handle content feedback on social media. Plus, Neil spills the details from his panel appearance at Columbia. They also rally behind the Evans Scholars Foundation and give shout-outs to sponsors ServPro, Rhoback, and Stone Creek Coffee. If you’re loving the episode, they’ve got the No Laying Up Newsletter, YouTube channel, and The Nest membership for more golf goodness and perks. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Productivity System I Taught to 6,642 Googlers Jeff Su’s CORE workflow is a four-step playbook (Capture, Organize, Review, Engage) that he’s rolled out to over 6,600 Googlers. It works with any tool, kicks in after just two weeks, and frees you from relying on memory or willpower alone. He walks you through the basics, shows it in action, breaks down why it works, and recaps everything in handy timestamps. Plus, he’s packed the description with links to his newsletter, favorite templates, The Workspace Academy, Notion command center, gear recs, and more so you can build a powerful workflow today. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Ένα ταξίδι ιστορίας μέσα από το Scrum, όπου ένα καράβι και το πλήρωμά του μαθαίνουν Agile αρχές, Sprint με Sprint, για να φτάσουν στο Νησί της Καινοτομίας. Σκοπός: Παρουσίαση του Scrum και Agile concepts με έναν αφηγηματικό, παραστατικό τρόπο. Γνωρίστε τους χαρακτήρες: Καπετάνιος (Scrum Master) – διασφαλίζει τη ροή, αφαιρεί εμπόδια Χαρτογράφος / Προϊστάμενος Προϊόντος (Product Owner) – ορίζει το Product Goal Ναύτες / Πλήρωμα (Developers) – εκτελούν εργασίες, παραδίδουν αξία Στήσιμο ιστορίας: Το Agile Seaway ταξιδεύει προς το Νησί της Καινοτομίας Μεταφορά: κάθε Sprint = ένα τμήμα του ταξιδιού Κεντρικές έννοιες Scrum που εισάγονται: Product Goal, Sprint, Roles, Increment, Backlog Ιστορία: Το πλήρωμα ετοιμάζεται για το πρώτο 15ήμερο ταξίδι Sprint Planning στο κατάστρωμα: καθορισμός πρώτου Spr…  ( 7 min )

When people talk about AI in e-commerce, the conversation often starts and ends with chatbots. Even then, these chatbots are usually built on shaky foundations: they deliver answers that feel generic, break whenever a prompt is worded differently, or fail outright if the underlying data isn’t structured correctly.  The cracks only widen when your catalog involves complex product descriptions or categorizations, and a simple change to your catalog can often break these chatbots and internal training decks. Yet most retail problems go far beyond answering a few customer questions.  Modern e-commerce teams juggle many moving parts: growing product catalogs, marketing campaigns, customer inquiries, and product knowledge scattered across tools, spreadsheets, PDFs, and support docs. The promise …  ( 9 min )

Everything Wrong With Longlegs in 24 Minutes (Or Less) CinemaSins tears into Nicolas Cage’s over-the-top performance in Longlegs, ticking off every plot hole, cringe line and “sin” in under 24 minutes. As a bonus, they tease director Osgood Perkins’s upcoming thriller Keeper and remind you that yes, those legs really are long. Along the way, they shout out their poll (iter.ly/lvr9d), Patreon, Discord, Reddit and all your favorite social handles—plus credit the crack team of writers behind the mayhem. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

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Security has become the defining challenge of the decentralized finance (DeFi) era. As billions of dollars move through smart contracts, the demand for transparent, verifiable, and tamper-resistant infrastructure grows stronger. ParaSwap stands out as one of the few DeFi aggregators that not only prioritize user experience but also implement a comprehensive, multi-layered security model. This article explores how ParaSwap secures its users, audits its contracts, and protects liquidity from potential vulnerabilities in 2025. The DeFi space operates without intermediaries, meaning users interact directly with blockchain protocols through smart contracts. While this model ensures transparency and control, it also introduces new risks: code exploits, fake tokens, phishing, and governance at…  ( 9 min )

You know those moments in DevOps where everything looks fine until it just… isn’t? I was spinning up a new project in Azure that needed the same Terraform setup as one of my older deployments. terraform apply. All was well until one small line decided to ruin my day. In this project, I wanted to run Python 3.12 as my App Service runtime. Python 3.11, so I just updated the version like this: site_config { python_version = "3.12" } Simple change, right? The deployment failed with a strange message saying “Python 3.12 is not available for your system setup.” That threw me off because when I checked the Azure Portal, the 3.12 runtime was clearly listed. At first, I suspected maybe my App Service Plan or region didn’t support it. Then it hit me: What if it’s not Azure… but Terraform? I checked the docs for my AzureRM provider version it was 3.75. provider version 4.x. Boom 💡 Terraform wasn’t the problem my Terraform provider was outdated and didn’t even know Python 3.12 existed yet. I updated my Terraform block to use the newer provider: terraform { required_providers { azurerm = { source = "hashicorp/azurerm" version = "~> 4.0" } } } Ran terraform init -upgrade, then terraform apply again… That day, Terraform taught me something subtle but important: Sometimes it’s not your code that’s outdated it’s the tool that talks to the cloud. In this case, my HCL configuration was fine. language barrier between Terraform and Azure fixed instantly by updating the provider version. When you hit strange errors like: “Resource not available” “Invalid attribute” “Value not supported” …even though the cloud UI says otherwise, check your provider version first. That small hiccup reminded me that DevOps isn’t just about writing perfect code. And honestly, sometimes, a failed deployment teaches you more than a smooth one ever could.  ( 7 min )

When you’re launching a crypto startup, the excitement of building something new is only matched by the number of decisions you need to make. From user onboarding to compliance, to ensuring that your platform can handle complex transactions - there's a lot on your plate. One of the most critical yet often overlooked aspects of running a crypto platform is the infrastructure. Sure, it's easy to get excited about tokenomics and partnerships, but when it comes to building a wallet system, things can get complicated. And that's where Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) comes in to save the day. Wallet-as-a-Service is, quite simply, a ready-made infrastructure solution that provides businesses with the tools they need to integrate a wallet system into their crypto platform without building it from scrat…  ( 8 min )

Hello Dev Community 👋 I’m Zonish Zahid, a frontend developer passionate about clean and creative web design. ✨ Features: This project helped me improve my skills in CSS Flexbox, media queries, and layout optimization. I’m continuously learning JavaScript and UI/UX design to make my websites even more interactive. 💬 I’d love your feedback — what do you think of my design approach? Let’s connect and grow together! 🚀  ( 6 min )

Imagine this scenario: You've just bought a new smart plug, and you're excited to integrate it with your Bosch Smart Home system. Instead of digging through the manual, you decide to ask your friendly AI chatbot for help. "Can I add my TP-Link smart plug to the Bosch Smart Home system?" you ask. The AI confidently responds: "Yes! Here's how to do it: First, open the Bosch Smart Home app and navigate to Settings. Then tap 'Add Device' and select 'Third-Party Integrations.' Choose 'TP-Link' from the list, enter your TP-Link credentials, and your smart plug will appear in your device list within minutes!" Excited, you follow these steps... only to find that none of these options exist in your app. There's no "Third-Party Integrations" menu. The TP-Link option isn't anywhere to be found. You'v…  ( 10 min )

Blockchain technology has changed how businesses manage trust, data, and transactions. It brings transparency, security, and decentralization. These qualities build confidence among customers and investors. But no blockchain solution should go live without proper testing and security checks. Testing confirms that everything works. Security protects the system from risks. Together they form the base for long-term success. For start ups, these steps turn an idea into a stable, trusted product. Start with a Detailed Testing Plan Good testing begins with planning. A testing plan defines what to test, who handles each part, and how success is measured. In blockchain projects, this means checking smart contracts, data flow, transaction logic, and permissions. Each part must work alone and as par…  ( 8 min )

🔍 What Is a HashSet? A HashSet is a collection in Java that stores unique elements — no duplicates allowed. Think of it like a bag of unique cards 🎴 — if you try to add the same card again, it just ignores it. ⚙️ Quick Example import java.util.HashSet; public class HashSetExample { public static void main(String[] args) { HashSet countries = new HashSet(); countries.add("Japan"); countries.add("Canada"); countries.add("Japan"); // duplicate ignored System.out.println(countries); // [Japan, Canada] System.out.println("Contains Canada? " + countries.contains("Canada")); // true } } ✅ Output: [Japan, Canada] Contains Canada? true 🧠 Notice how “Japan” appears only once — HashSet automatically handles duplicates. ⚙️ How …  ( 8 min )

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In the digital age, establishing an online presence is imperative for businesses of all sizes. Two of the most popular platforms for creating websites and online stores are Wix and Shopify. Although both platforms offer unique features and advantages, they serve different purposes and audiences. This article will provide a comprehensive comparison of Wix and Shopify, helping you determine which platform is the best fit for your needs. Wix is a website builder that allows users to create stunning websites without needing coding skills. It's known for its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, which enables users to customize their site with ease. Wix offers a variety of templates and applications, making it suitable for different types of websites, including portfolios, blogs, and business …  ( 8 min )

Περιληπτικά Μια ποδοσφαιρική ομάδα εφαρμόζει Scrum για να φτάσει στον τελικό του Κυπέλλου, με κάθε Sprint να είναι μια προπονητική περίοδος και κάθε Increment μια βελτίωση στην απόδοση. Σκοπός: Παρουσίαση του Scrum μέσα από την ιστορία μιας ομάδας που δουλεύει με Agile αρχές για να κατακτήσει το Κύπελλο. Χαρακτήρες: Προπονητής (Scrum Master): αφαιρεί εμπόδια, καθοδηγεί την ομάδα Τεχνικός Διευθυντής (Product Owner): ορίζει το μακροπρόθεσμο στόχο (π.χ. κατάκτηση Κυπέλλου), προτεραιοποιεί τις βελτιώσεις Παίκτες (Developers): εκτελούν τις προπονήσεις, εφαρμόζουν τακτικές, βελτιώνουν την απόδοση Μεταφορά: Ιστορία: Η ομάδα ξεκινά την προετοιμασία για την αγωνιστική σεζόν. Ο Τεχνικός Διευθυντής θέτει ως στόχο την κατάκτηση του Κυπέλλου. Ο Προπονητής οργανώνει το πρώτο Sprint Planning: καθορίζεται το Sprint Goal (π.χ. βελτίωση φυσικής κατάστασης), δημιουργείται το Sprint Backlog με τις προπονήσεις. Έννοιες Scrum: • Sprint Planning Story Beats: • Ο Προπονητής εξηγεί τους κανόνες και αφαιρεί εμπόδια (π.χ. τραυματισμοί) Κεφάλαιο 2 – Η Συνεργασία στο Γήπεδο (Sprint 2) Ιστορία: Έννοιες Scrum: • Cross-functional teamwork Story Beats: • Η ομάδα οργανώνει τακτικές επικοινωνίας στο γήπεδο Ιστορία: Έννοιες Scrum: Story Beats: Ιστορία: Έννοιες Scrum: Έννοιες Scrum: Σκοπός: Story Beats: nikosst  ( 7 min )

Intro to JS var: Scope: var declarations are function-scoped or globally-scoped. This means a variable declared with var is accessible throughout the entire function it's declared in, or globally if declared outside any function. Hoisting: var declarations are hoisted, meaning their declarations are moved to the top of their containing scope during compilation. However, their assignments are not hoisted. This can lead to unexpected behavior if you try to use a var variable before its assignment. Reassignment and Redeclaration: var variables can be reassigned and redeclared within the same scope without error. let: Scope: let declarations are block-scoped. This means a variable declared with let is only accessible within the block (e.g., if statement, for loop, or any {} block) where it's…  ( 19 min )

Last week marked the 2025 edition of PGConf EU. I had many roles, and I'm excited to let you know that I have almost recovered from a very busy week. Below are my very personal highlights. There was the PostgreSQL Women Breakfast at PGConf.EU 2025, organized by Priyanka Chatterjee and Teresa Lopes, and supported by the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee. An initiative very much appreciated by all who joined. October 21, Karen Jex (Crunchy Data / Snowflake) and I talked about accessibility and the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower program at the Community Organizers Conf the day before PGConf EU. I tried to summarize what we discussed in this blog. Karen and I, and Boriss Mejias and Jimmy Angelakos, also did a panel on mental health and neurodiversity in the open source community and at w…  ( 8 min )

At PGConf EU last week I was part of a panel on mental health and neurodiversity in the open source community and at work. I'll try and summarize the discussion here. We were all quite moved by the audience participation during the panel. People shared personal stories and the ways they get their best work done. We're trying to get their stories summarized so those can be shared too, as we've opted to remove them from the recording to protect people's privacy. EDB colleague, PGDay Lowlands co-organizer, and my close friend Boriss Mejias took on the role of host for the panel. Jimmy Angelakos, Staff Software Engineer at pgEdge, has been part of the PostgreSQL community for over 15 years and open source community for over 25 years. He's a member of the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity committee…  ( 10 min )

As one warrior once said: I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Meanwhile, somewhere deep in a mailing list from 1999, another warrior prepares his response. He adjusts his glasses, cracks his knuckles, and begins typing furiously. The room smells faintly of old ThinkPads and righteous indignation. The battle lines are drawn — and thus begins the counterattack. No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the …  ( 9 min )

In the ever-evolving world of e-commerce, businesses are often faced with the challenge of choosing the right platforms to build their online presence. Two popular names in this domain are Shopify and Wix. Each offers unique features and capabilities, making them well-suited for different types of businesses. This article explores how these platforms can work together, their individual strengths, and how to integrate them for a seamless online shopping experience. Shopify is a leading e-commerce platform that allows businesses to create their own online stores. It is known for its powerful features tailored specifically for e-commerce, including: Customizable Storefronts: Over 70 professional templates. Payment Processing: Integrated payment gateways for ease of transactions. Inventory Man…  ( 8 min )

Unleash AI Performance: How Chiplets and Smart Networks Are Democratizing Custom Silicon Tired of waiting for your massive deep learning models to crunch through data? Are you hitting performance bottlenecks with standard GPUs or CPUs? The future of AI isn't monolithic, it's modular. Chiplets are changing the game. The core concept is simple: instead of one giant chip, we're building systems from smaller, specialized "chiplets" connected by a high-speed network on a silicon interposer. Think of it like switching from one massive, congested highway to a network of express lanes – customized for the data flow. However, simply connecting chiplets isn't enough. The inter-chiplet network is critical. By dynamically optimizing the network topology for the specific workloads, we can dramaticall…  ( 7 min )

Can remote work really match the speed, connection, and creativity of an in-office team? Turns out when done right, it often beats it. We’ve seen remote work shift from a temporary fix to a permanent, strategic choice. Today, hybrid and distributed setups aren’t experiments; they’re the backbone of how modern teams operate. So if you’re managing (or working in) one, it’s time to move past survival mode and start mastering it. Let’s break down what actually drives remote work success in 2025 without the buzzwords. Remote success isn’t luck. It rests on four interlocking parts: Technology: Reliable tools that make collaboration smooth and secure. Communication: Clear expectations for response times, meetings, and updates. Performance: Results over hours measure what gets delivered, not when.…  ( 8 min )

Introduction Learning should be simple, smart, and engaging — not repetitive or overwhelming. MindSpark AI aims to achieve. MindSpark AI is an AI-powered learning assistant that helps students, educators, and lifelong learners generate Flashcards and Quizzes instantly from any topic. 🎯 The Use Case Traditional study methods are time-consuming. Learners often spend hours creating notes, revising key points, and preparing quizzes manually. MindSpark AI automates this process entirely: 🧠 Generate Flashcards on any topic with precise Q&A format. 📝 Create intelligent multiple-choice quizzes with correct answers and tags. 📂 Store and revisit all learning content in one place for easy revision. Result? ⚙️ Key Features Enter any topic — like “Quantum Mechanics” — and the system instantly gen…  ( 8 min )

Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam requires a solid understanding of cloud architecture, security, and scalability. This AWS SAP-C02 Exam preparation guide is designed to help you strengthen your knowledge, refine your strategy, and pass the exam with confidence. The AWS SAP-C02 certification validates advanced technical skills in designing and deploying scalable, reliable, and secure applications on AWS. With the right AWS SAP-C02 Exam preparation guide, candidates can gain a deeper understanding of how to architect efficient solutions using AWS services while adhering to best practices. To succeed, focus on key areas such as designing multi-tier architectures, implementing cost-optimized solutions, and securing workloads effectively. Following an AWS SAP-C02 Exam preparation guide ensures you cover these essential topics systematically. It helps you not only learn the theoretical aspects but also apply them in real-world scenarios. One of the most effective ways to study is through practice. Reliable platforms like study4exam provide authentic resources and practice materials to enhance your readiness. Their AWS SAP-C02 Exam preparation guide includes detailed explanations and mock questions that simulate the actual exam environment, helping you evaluate your performance and boost your confidence. Consistency and hands-on practice are key. Use an AWS SAP-C02 Exam preparation guide to schedule study sessions, identify weak areas, and track your progress. The more you engage with AWS tools and services, the better prepared you’ll be to handle exam questions efficiently. In conclusion, a comprehensive AWS SAP-C02 Exam preparation guide is your ultimate tool for mastering AWS architectural principles and achieving certification success. With the right resources and determination, you can design efficient, secure, and scalable systems while taking your cloud career to the next level.  ( 6 min )

The world of digital marketing is evolving faster than ever, and at the heart of this transformation lies AI in marketing automation — a shift from reactive marketing to predictive, intent-driven engagement. Gone are the days when automation meant just sending emails or scheduling social posts. In 2025, AI is the brain behind marketing — learning from every click, conversation, and interaction to create personalized, real-time customer journeys. Traditional marketing automation was rule-based: “If the user signs up, send a welcome email.” That worked once — but today’s consumers expect more. They want communication that feels personal, timely, and relevant. This is where AI-driven automation comes in. It not only tracks user behavior but predicts what comes next — identifying intent, antic…  ( 8 min )

If you’ve ever tried generating PDFs in a web app, you already know the pain. What looks perfect in the browser suddenly shifts, breaks, or crashes when you try to export it. And when your app is under load, those nice-looking exports can suddenly turn into memory leaks or 30-second timeouts. That’s why we built PDF Print Engine - a production-ready HTML-to-PDF converter that just works. It takes your HTML + data and streams a PDF directly to your API response - no heavy setup, no flaky rendering. Every team building exports or reports eventually hits the same wall: 🧱 Browser-based renderers (like Puppeteer) are slow and fragile. 🧠 Headless Chromium instances eat memory and need constant babysitting. 🪄 “Simple” libraries block your process by buffering entire PDFs in RAM. ⚙️ Under real traffic, things break - queue overloads, timeouts, or missing assets. We wanted something simpler, but still reliable enough for production. PDF Print Engine turns any HTML template into a beautiful, predictable PDF stream. You feed it your markup and data - it returns a PDF instantly, with minimal memory footprint. ⚡ Zero friction: Feed HTML + data → get a PDF stream instantly. 🧩 Lightweight and scalable: Streams output instead of buffering it in memory. 💡 Templating freedom: Supports both Squirrelly and EJS out of the box. 🛠️ TypeScript ready: Ships with full typings and ESM/CommonJS support. 🧱 Production-grade: Stable defaults, consistent layout, and safe rendering. The Result A production-ready PDF engine that doesn’t break under pressure. 👉 Try PDF Print Engine here: PDF Print Engine Tags: pdf development webdev backend  ( 6 min )

Back in Hacktoberfest 2022, I kicked off a set of contributions aimed at making SQL DDL generation and schema visualization easier using open-source tools. This year, I revisited those efforts with a sharper focus on Draw.io plugin development. Draw.io remains a powerful tool for diagramming, but its native support for SQL workflows is limited. To bridge that gap, I’ve continued building and refining third-party plugins that allow: Importing SQL DDLs into Draw.io diagrams Exporting diagrams back into SQL DDL Improved foreign key line generation across multiple database types Support for PostgreSQL relationship arrows (finally!) These updates are part of the sqltooling-drawio repo, which now includes better test coverage, multi-DB compatibility, and easier integration with the Draw.io desktop app. I submitted two key PRs to the Draw.io repo: Export SQL DDL plugin Improved SQL parser for import plugin While Draw.io contributions remain closed-source, these plugins can be manually installed and used with the desktop version or VSCode integration. @funktechno/sqlsimpleparser: Converts SQL DDL into JSON models for Draw.io import  ( 6 min )

How to Design a Spiral Spring Toy using 3D CAD Software https://www.selfcad.com/tutorials/584j6a2x5rs4s2w4m512e2t4g6u661p4a3kg Once you’ve launched the editor; https://www.selfcad.com/tutorials) available on the SelfCAD website. The tutorials page provides a treasure trove of guides, tips, and tricks that cater to designers of all levels. https://www.selfcad.com/academy/curriculum/), https://www.youtube.com/@3dmodeling101, and 3D Modeling 101 series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74nFNT8yS9DcE1UlUUdiR1wFGv9DDfTB). This comprehensive resource offers in-depth courses taught by industry experts, allowing you to master the intricacies of SelfCAD at your own pace  ( 7 min )

Recently, after an exhausting 30-kilometer cycling sprint, I made a terrifying discovery: a chain link was suffering from a critical integrity breach! Thankfully, I'd managed to bootstrap my way home - the thought of pushing my bike for ten kilometers was a genuine nightmare scenario. So, I immediately logged in to provision a replacement part online. What followed was a masterclass in suboptimal data management. My journey began on the frontend of Vendor D's e-commerce platform. I initiated an order for a new bike chain. The first point of friction appeared during the checkout process: the selected chain cleaning solution was from a different microservice/vendor, triggering separate shipping APIs and demanding additional freight charges. I quickly decided to swap it for an alternative cha…  ( 8 min )

In a space famous for noise, promises, and moving goalposts, here’s a straight-shooting guide to communication that respects developers, partners, regulators, and users. In this no-nonsense playbook, I point to this compact outline for the gist—and then turn it into repeatable habits you can ship every week. Attention is a finite resource. In Web3, you’re competing with protocol upgrades, exploits, governance drama, token charts, and ten different “game-changing” launches per day. The only way to win long-term is to treat attention like capital: deploy it carefully, compound trust, and cut waste. That starts with radical clarity, verifiable claims, and audience empathy. People don’t remember adjective piles; they remember impact. Replace puffery with concrete outcomes and numbers that can …  ( 9 min )

The simplest way to build something people trust is to make it work, make it clear, and keep it that way. In a market addicted to headlines and hero narratives, the quietly reliable products outlast the hype cycles and compound advantages month after month. That’s the essence behind this practical perspective, and it’s what separates durable companies from flash-in-the-pan launches. Trust doesn’t live in slogans. It emerges from consistent, verifiable performance users can observe on their own. Think about it like latency—you don’t “announce” latency; you reduce it, measure it, and prove it daily. The same goes for privacy, security, uptime, and transparent pricing. You don’t ask for belief. You design for verification. A useful mental model: credibility is produced by repeatable behaviors…  ( 9 min )

In 2025, audiences are allergic to grand promises and hungry for receipts; that’s why this playbook aligns with the insights outlined in Credibility Over Hype: 2025 Playbook while translating them into a practical operating system any product team can run starting today. Hype creates a spike; trust creates a slope. Markets have matured, budgets are tighter, and stakeholders are measured on outcomes—not buzz. Teams that consistently earn trust capture compounding advantages: faster cycles with partners, warmer intros from customers, and a stronger talent pipeline. If you need a mental model, the well-known Gartner hype cycle is useful—but the goal here isn’t to ride the peak; it’s to build a foundation that endures through the trough and into the plateau. 1) Clarity. Say exactly what your p…  ( 9 min )

Most growth advice for emerging tech still treats trust as a marketing veneer rather than an engineering constraint, yet teams that wire credibility into their stack win faster and cheaper; that’s the core idea I’ll expand here, building on lessons I’ve seen in the field and reflections similar to this field note about taking a trust-first path from prototype to adoption. If you build in crypto or adjacent fintech, your users don’t just evaluate features—they evaluate risk. They ask: Will this lose me money? Will it lock me in? Can I verify claims without a PhD? Traditional “move fast” roadmaps confuse speed with progress, and the result is a long tail of abandoned wallets, dust accounts, and churned integrations. Trust-first growth flips the order of operations: you prioritize verifiabili…  ( 9 min )

Why this matters if you own a RAG feature I’ve watched clean lab demos fall apart in production: the retriever brings back the wrong paragraph when a user types shorthand, the model fills gaps with confident fiction, and p95 latency creeps past your SLA the second traffic spikes. This guide is the pragmatic way I measure and stabilize RAG—so we ship fast, and earn trust. If you need rails for this, start here: Experiment and compare retrievers, prompts, chunking: Experimentation Simulate real users and evaluate agents at scale: Agent Simulation & Evaluation Trace, monitor, and alert on live quality: Agent Observability Docs and SDKs to wire it in: Docs, SDK Overview If you want a walkthrough: Book a Demo or Get started free The short list I actually track Retrieval re…  ( 9 min )

Dr. Rachna Buxani-Mirpuri is an internationally experienced therapist, speaker, and author who brings together the wisdom of her Dubai upbringing, the rigor of her clinical training, and the warmth of a deeply human-centered approach. Whether supporting trauma survivors, educating new parents, or guiding professionals through emotional overwhelm, she remains anchored in the values passed down through generations—compassion, resilience, and a commitment to mental well-being for all. When we talk about modern mental health care that truly connects science with soul, Dr. Rachna Buxani stands out as a guiding light. Her approach to therapy transcends the traditional clinical model by weaving empathy, cultural awareness, and evidence-based methods into one powerful framework. With a practice ro…  ( 9 min )

Hey everyone! I just put together a new project and wanted to share how you can build a fully automated CI/CD pipeline to deploy a React.js application. The best part? It uses AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and Amazon S3 to automatically build and deploy your app every single time you push a change to your GitHub repo. Say goodbye to manual deployments! This is a fantastic way to get your hands dirty with some of the most in-demand AWS services and streamline your entire front-end workflow. 🤖 What Does This Project Do? Write your React code locally. Push your code to the main branch on GitHub. Automatically trigger an entire build and deploy process on AWS. See your live, updated website hosted on a static Amazon S3 bucket. 🔧 How It Works You push your new code to the main branch on GitHub. AWS CodePipeline instantly detects the change. AWS CodeBuild pulls the code, installs all the dependencies (npm install), and runs the build (npm run build). The final build output (the static files) is automatically deployed to your S3 bucket. Amazon S3 serves your React app as a public, static website. All done! ➡️ Get the Full Tutorial! full step-by-step video tutorial that walks you through this entire process from start to finish. It's perfect if you're a visual learner or want to build this alongside me. 📺 Watch the full video on YouTube! https://youtu.be/1k6s4shjpRc You can also find all the code, configuration files, and the full README with all the steps on the public GitHub repository. 📁 Check out the code on GitHub https://github.com/julien-muke/aws-codepipeline-react-s3 Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think in the comments. What other AWS services are you using to automate your projects?  ( 7 min )

When Zig 0.15 removed compression support from its standard library, it created an opportunity: build a standalone, production-ready compression library while navigating the language's new I/O paradigm shift known as "Writergate." This post chronicles the development of Comprezz, a single-file gzip/deflate compression library that combines classical computer science algorithms with modern systems programming. What you'll learn: How the DEFLATE compression algorithm works under the hood Building bit-level I/O abstractions in systems programming Navigating Zig 0.15's new non-generic I/O interfaces Implementing Huffman coding and LZ77 compression from scratch Comprezz is a ~1700-line pure Zig implementation providing: Full LZ77 + Huffman encoding - Complete DEFLATE (RFC 1951) implementation M…  ( 17 min )

If you're building modern UIs, you've probably worked with HTML and JSX. But TileLang? That’s a newer player worth knowing—especially for internal tools and low-code platforms. Here’s a quick breakdown: 🧱 HTML The web’s foundation Static, semantic, browser-native ⚛️ JSX HTML-like syntax in JavaScript Powers dynamic React components 🧩 TileLang Declarative UI for dashboards Used in low-code/internal platforms Read the complete article on codeymaze.com  ( 6 min )

Modern SaaS teams deploy code faster than ever before. Daily releases, microservices, and automated pipelines have turned “version 2.0” into an endless stream of 2.0.1s. That’s great for innovation, but terrible for security. Somewhere between one release and the next, vulnerabilities sneak in quietly. They don’t make noise. They don’t crash systems. They just wait. This is the silent breach. It’s the gap between releases where security quietly fails. Most breaches don’t come from major exploits. They start small: a forgotten endpoint, a misconfigured permission, or a dependency that silently updated overnight. The modern SaaS stack is full of these weak spots: 1) Static Scans for Dynamic Systems: Security scans still run on schedules, but your attack surface updates with every deploy. 2) …  ( 7 min )

In today's hyperconnected digital landscape, cyber risk management has evolved from a technical IT concern into a strategic business imperative. As organizations increasingly rely on digital infrastructure, cloud services, and interconnected supply chains, the question isn't whether your business will face a cyber threat—it's when. The alarming reality is that 43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses, yet many organizations remain dangerously unprepared, with 51% of small businesses having no cybersecurity measures in place at all. The cyber threat landscape in 2025 presents a complex and evolving challenge for businesses of all sizes. Recent analysis reveals that the overall cyber risk and insurance landscape shows increasingly sophisticated attacks, with ransomware remaining the t…  ( 16 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. I was inspired by classic haunted house scenes from Halloween movies and stories. My CSS art features a spooky haunted house, glowing moon, flickering windows, bats, ghosts, zombies, pumpkins, and interactive elements like thunder, fog, and falling leaves—all designed to evoke the playful yet eerie spirit of Halloween night. You can view the live demo here: This project was a fun exploration of CSS art and interactive frontend features. I learned how to combine CSS animations with JavaScript to create dynamic effects, such as flickering lights, moving zombies, and sound triggers for thunder, witch cackles, and more. I’m proud of the way the scene comes alive with user interaction—hovering, clicking, and toggling music and themes. Next, I’d like to add more accessibility features and polish the mobile responsiveness. All code is original and separated into HTML, CSS, and JS for clarity. If you’d like to use or remix this, feel free—credit me!  ( 6 min )

In the world of API development and testing, it’s not enough to verify that each endpoint works in isolation. Real users don’t just hit one endpoint — they follow multi-step flows like signing up, logging in, updating data, and retrieving records. To truly validate your product, you need to test how these flows perform from end to end. That’s where Requesty’s Collection Runner comes in. Most critical bugs don’t come from individual endpoints — they come from the interactions between them. A successful login that returns an invalid token, or a profile update that fails silently, can ruin the user experience and go unnoticed if tests don’t mimic real behavior. Simulating real user flows helps you: Validate business logic and data dependencies Detect regressions that break chained functional…  ( 8 min )

Security has always been the make-or-break factor in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). As the industry matures, users now demand platforms that combine innovation with verifiable protection. In 2025, AsterDEX stands out as one of the few exchanges that treat security not as a feature — but as a foundation. AsterDEX philosophy of Security by Design ensures that every contract, validator, and bridge is auditable, traceable, and community-governed. Early DeFi projects often prioritized yield over safety, leading to billions in losses from exploits and rug pulls. AsterDEX reverses this trend by integrating multi-layered defense — audits, validator staking, and transparent governance — from day one. The full structure is detailed in AsterDEX Security. All code is public on AsterDEX GitHub, tu…  ( 8 min )

Transformers for Unseen Patterns: Bayesian Clustering Reimagined Ever struggle to find clear clusters in messy data, uncertain about how many groups truly exist? Traditional clustering algorithms often assume neat, well-defined boundaries, but reality is messier. What if we could estimate the probability of data belonging to different clusters and even the number of clusters itself, all while handling missing data gracefully? Imagine you're a detective trying to solve a mystery. Instead of simply assigning suspects to possible crime scenes, you're also trying to figure out how many suspects were actually involved, acknowledging that some evidence might be missing or unreliable. This is the essence of Bayesian clustering – it's about embracing uncertainty to find the most probable underl…  ( 7 min )

Different type of action to take on delete in Laravel database migration. When defining a foreign key in a Laravel migration, the onDelete method determines what happens to the child records when the parent record is deleted. This allows you to manage data integrity at the database level. Here are the different types of onDelete actions you can use: The CASCADE action will automatically delete all child records when their parent record is deleted. This is useful for "has many" relationships where the child records are meaningless without the parent. Example: If a user is deleted, all of their posts are also deleted. Migration code: $table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained()->cascadeOnDelete(); Migration code: $table->foreign('user_id') ->references('id')->on('users') ->o…  ( 7 min )

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan reconvene to tackle John Carpenter’s 1981 follow-up, Halloween II. Between friendly trash talk and genuine fan enthusiasm, they debate whether Michael Myers is the ultimate horror villain, spotlight the film’s most rewatchable scenes, and dish out playful “award” categories for kills, jump scares, and the best cameo from Donald Pleasence. Along the way, they pepper in sponsor shout-outs (Paramount+’s A Mountain of Movies®, Netflix’s A House of Dynamite) and remind you how to stay covered with State Farm. If you’re all about dissecting horror lore with a side of banter, this episode is your ticket to re-experiencing medicine-dripping Myers like never before. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins has returned to roast Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie now back in theaters, dishing out their signature “sins”—funny nitpicks and quips—while still celebrating the film’s charm. Think 14 minutes of rapid-fire commentary that points out everything from plot quirks to animation oddities (all with a wink and a nod). They’ve also sprinkled in links to their main site, YouTube channels (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), social media, a poll to learn more about fans, and a Patreon invite to support the crew. Plus, a shout-out to their writers—Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel—and invites to join the CinemaSins Discord and Reddit communities. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins tears into Final Destination: Bloodlines with their signature rapid-fire sin-counting, calling out every over-the-top death trap and plot convenience in under 24 minutes. Along the way they plug their therapy sponsor BetterHelp, plug their other channels (TVSins, CommercialSins, their podcast network) and direct fans to linktr.ee/cinemasins for all the latest updates. They also invite you to fill out a “sinful” poll, support their scrappy team on Patreon, and hang out on Discord or Reddit. Plus, they give a shout-out to each writer with their social handles—because every cinematic nitpick deserves its own credit. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins dives headfirst into Nicolas Cage’s unsettling thriller Longlegs, ticking off every hilarious misstep (and confirming that yes, those legs really are that long) in a bite-size, under-24-minute roast. They tie it all together with a shoutout to Osgood Perkins’ upcoming Keeper, using the Cage flick as a springboard for some cinematic mayhem. Beyond the sins count, the description space is packed with goodies: links to the CinemaSins site and YouTube spinoffs (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), a “sinful” audience poll, Patreon support invites, and social channels from Discord and Reddit to Instagram and TikTok. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Caravan of Garbage kicks off a four-week deep dive into the first four Predator films, starting with the 1987 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. They hail Predator as the ultimate blend of ’80s action and sci-fi—packed with epic direction, tight writing, killer creature design, mud, muscles, lasers and all the explosions you could want. For more early videos, bonus podcasts and extended audio editions, swing by bigsandwich.co and follow the hosts on Twitter. You can also subscribe on YouTube, grab the podcast on iTunes or acast, join their Patreon for extra content, or rock some merch to show your support. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Numbers Numbers have no physical existence. They are virtual. Humanity created numbers to manage the present and predict the future. We needed to count animals in the herd, days, harvest, and people in the tribe. Later we realized that with numbers we can predict the future. By observing the motion of the planets, astronomers have calculated their orbits and can accurately predict eclipses centuries in advance. Meteorologists analyze temperature, pressure, humidity and predict the weather. Insurance companies calculate accident risks, doctors evaluate the effectiveness of treatments, and economists forecast market growth. The more data, the more accurate the forecast. But everything starts from measuring and counting. You wake up in the morning an hour before work starts. One hour is eno…  ( 10 min )

As your Medusa.js e-commerce platform grows, performance and reliability depend on how well it scales under load. Kubernetes provides native tools like the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and KEDA to automatically adjust resources based on real-time demand. Medusa for horizontal scaling in Kubernetes, using Prometheus, cAdvisor, and HPA - ensuring your store remains responsive even during peak traffic periods. Before implementing autoscaling, ensure that your monitoring and metric systems are in place. To make HPA and KEDA work efficiently, you’ll need: cAdvisor – collects container-level CPU and memory metrics. Prometheus – scrapes, stores, and visualizes time-series metrics. Prometheus Adapter or KEDA – exposes those metrics to the HPA. This setup is essential to achieve a reliable, resp…  ( 9 min )

Mind‑Paced Speaking: Dual‑Brain AI That Thinks While It Talks What if your phone could think and talk at the same time, just like you? Researchers have introduced Mind‑Paced Speaking, a brain‑inspired trick that lets spoken AI reason in real time. Formulation Brain that does the heavy thinking, and an Articulation Brain that turns those thoughts into smooth speech. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Mind-Paced Speaking: A Dual-Brain Approach to Real-Time Reasoning in SpokenLanguage Models 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 11 min )

EIP-7702, introduced with the Ethereum Pectra upgrade, represents a major turning point for the EVM ecosystem. It lets Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) operate like smart contract accounts for a limited time. This brings Account Abstraction (AA) features, such as advanced transaction logic and flexible gas payments, to existing EOA addresses. We’ll cover: Why EIP-7702 Infrastructure Matters Projects That Can Benefit from the EIP-7702 Infrastructure What Makes the EIP-7702 Infra Developer-Friendly How to Get Started EIP-7702 introduces a new “setCode” transaction type (0x04) that temporarily equips EOAs with powerful smart account functionality. However, without an open and reliable infrastructure to handle UserOperation (UserOp) submissions, adoption of 7702 could become fragmented, while …  ( 8 min )

Introduction Translation.pk is a professional language service provider based in Islamabad, Pakistan. According to their website, they have been operating since 2005, offering a wide range of translation, localization and interpreting services.Services Offered Translation.pk’s service portfolio includes: Strengths & Unique Selling Points Target Audiences As with any language service provider, quality will depend on the specific translator and project complexity. If your document has very specialised requirements (e.g., legal documents for a foreign jurisdiction), you should check whether they have translators familiar with that domain. If translation is for official use (embassy, legal) you may want to verify acceptance by the relevant authority of their certification or notarization. *Why Choose Translation.pk Given their combination of local presence in Pakistan, wide language coverage, human-translator focus and service breadth, they could be a good choice if you: Need translation of documents from/to Urdu/English or from/to other major world languages. Are based in Pakistan (or outsourcing translation from Pakistan) and want a service that understands local needs (visa, immigration, study abroad). Want a one-stop shop for translation, localization, interpretation, transcription. Final Thoughts In a world where translation is increasingly challenged by machine tools, it’s refreshing to see a service like Translation.pk emphasise the human element, cultural nuance and certification for official use. If you have documents needing translation (personal, legal, business) or content for a foreign-language audience, they are a serious option.  ( 7 min )

Hey dev community! When working on Spring Boot projects, we all need to read values from our application.properties or application.yml files. Most of us start by using the @Value annotation to inject each property one by one. The Problem (The "Old Way") @Service public class MyOldService { @Value("${app.api.url}") private String apiUrl; @Value("${app.api.key}") private String apiKey; @Value("${app.feature.toggle.new-feature}") private boolean featureToggle; @Value("${app.thread-pool-size}") private int poolSize; // ... and it goes on and on } This is verbose, hard to maintain, and not type-safe (just Strings and primitives). If you mistype a prefix, everything breaks at runtime. The Solution: @ConfigurationProperties The idea is simple: map an ent…  ( 7 min )

In today’s digital workplace, the need for interoperability between PDF and HTML formats continues to rise. A common early challenge in the C# ecosystem is achieving high-fidelity PDF-to-HTML conversion. This guide explains how to implement this functionality with Spire.PDF for .NET, including reusable code snippets and step-by-step configuration instructions. PDF Document Structure Complexity PDF’s vector graphics, embedded fonts, and layout logic differ inherently from HTML—creating fundamental compatibility gaps. Common Conversion Pitfalls Misaligned text and table formatting Inconsistent image resolution Lost interactive elements (e.g., forms) As a dependency-free PDF processing library, Spire.PDF for .NET addresses these issues with 100% independent conversion APIs. It suppo…  ( 7 min )

Flutter, Google's open-source UI software development toolkit, has rapidly become a preferred choice for building natively compiled, cross-platform applications from a single codebase. Its declarative UI paradigm, coupled with robust performance, hel...  ( 20 min )

JSON has become the standard format for data exchange on the web. So you'll run into JSON all the time when working with REST APIs, configuration files, database exports, and more. As a developer, you should know how to parse, manipulate, and generat...  ( 9 min )

APIs and MCPs both help systems talk to each other. At first, they might look the same. Both allow one piece of software to ask another for data or perform an action. But the way they work and the reason they exist are completely different. An API, ...  ( 8 min )

Have you ever needed to take screenshots of websites automatically – maybe to track visual changes, include them in reports, or generate previews? Doing this manually can be time-consuming, especially if you need to capture multiple pages regularly. ...  ( 10 min )

You can modern application architecture by building real-world serverless and microservices solutions using C# and Azure. We just posted a full course on the freeCodeCamp that will teach you to build scaleable cloud applications. Muhammad Abdullah de...  ( 3 min )

We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel to help prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certification. This course is designed to provide a deep, practical understanding of Kubernetes administration, from founda...  ( 11 min )

The oracle network token overcame selling pressure earlier Wednesday, but the technical picture remains mixed.  ( 30 min )

The MetaMask maker’s public debut could be the biggest Ethereum-native listing yet, amid a wave of crypto firms hitting U.S. markets.  ( 29 min )

The global payments firm previously held talks to acquire crypto payment infrastructure startup BNVK, according to reports.  ( 29 min )

BTC is down but not out following Powell's hakwish commentary on rates.  ( 30 min )

Though acknowledging growing weakness in the labor market, Powell said a December rate cut is not a "foregone conclusion."  ( 30 min )

Headed lower on Wednesday ahead of the news, bitcoin remained so in the minutes following the news at $111,700, down 3% over the past 24 hours.  ( 30 min )

XLM demonstrates resilience with modest gains and exceptional volume surge, signaling potential momentum building beneath current consolidation patterns.  ( 29 min )

Barclays, JP Morgan and Compass Point see gains in USDC and trading, but clash over Base, Deribit and profit margins.  ( 31 min )

Visa’s growing stablecoin network positions it as the key infrastructure player in blockchain payments, while individual tokens risk becoming commoditized assets.  ( 30 min )

Hedera faces selling pressure at $0.2055 resistance as trading volume explodes 137% above average, marking institutional distribution amid choppy price action.  ( 30 min )

The fund offers exposure to collateralized loan obligations, with onchain capital allocator Grove planning a $100 million anchor investment.  ( 30 min )

Read this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter for Andy Baehr's “Vibe Check,” a story of two markets. Then, learn how the true internet generation set the stage for digital currencies with Sam Ewen.  ( 35 min )

The high-speed Ethereum layer-2 drew nearly nine times its target as over 14,000 investors rushed in.  ( 29 min )

The decline was part of a broader crypto market drop, with traders focusing on technical cues and selling dominating  ( 29 min )

The company is expected to report another quarterly profit on Thursday, possibly reviving expectations for S&P 500 inclusion, 10x Research's Markus Thielen argued.  ( 29 min )

The network’s native token, ADA, dropped 3% over the past 24 hours as selling pressure mounted and altcoin rotation gained pace.  ( 30 min )

BONK broke $0.0000146 support on heavy volume but found buyers near $0.0000143 as traders eye potential base formation.  ( 29 min )

Also: BOB Unveils BTC Vault Liquidation Engine, Ledger’s Major Overhaul and Google Weighs In on Quantum Computing.  ( 36 min )

The broker sees digital asset treasuries stabilizing as U.S.-China trade progress lifts sentiment.  ( 29 min )

Bitcoin is not just lagging gold in 2025, but its returns have also slipped below those of the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.  ( 30 min )

Western Union’s new Solana-based stablecoin and crypto cash-out network mark a smart step into blockchain-enabled remittances, the report said.  ( 29 min )

The stock jumped 17% Tuesday after inking a $9.5 billion Google-backed AI compute deal with Fluidstack.  ( 28 min )

Ten years ago, he declined a credible offer to mine bitcoin, missing out on an opportunity to make billions. Now that his personal fortune is dwindling, Bidzina Ivanishvili is going to extreme lengths to get his hands on the bitcoin he sees as rightfully his.  ( 45 min )

The move allows Ondo Global Markets to deepen its tokenized stock market reach to BNB's 100 million users, with a strong base in Asia and Latin America.  ( 29 min )

With clearer regulation and growing institutional demand, Taurus is expanding its footprint to serve U.S. financial giants from New York.  ( 29 min )

ASIC said many digital assets are covered by existing financial laws as it readies the ground for impending digital asset platform legislation.  ( 29 min )

The firm gained approval to introduce a regulated trading system for tokenized securities.  ( 29 min )

The crypto market paused midweek as traders looked to the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate call and progress on a potential U.S.-China trade agreement.  ( 31 min )

A Washington, D.C. statue of Changpeng “CZ” Zhao became the center of a memecoin frenzy after the “czstatue” token surged 27,000% in a day before collapsing to near zero.  ( 29 min )

The bank said investors are likely to vote down the deal on Oct. 30, betting Core Scientific can create more value on its own.  ( 30 min )

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 29, 2025  ( 37 min )

Traders eye potential volatility as bitcoin hovers near max pain around $114,000 and ether nears $4,000.  ( 30 min )

The exchange-traded product offers investors regulated access to Bittensor’s TAO token with staking rewards and full physical backing.  ( 30 min )

DBS said the deal involved trading cash-settled OTC bitcoin and ether options.  ( 30 min )

The Trump-backed stablecoin project is rewarding early adopters through its USD1 points program, distributing tokens across six exchanges as it expands into DeFi and real-world asset integrations.  ( 29 min )

A brief slip under $200 drew heavier selling before SOL steadied near $195–$196, as Bitwise touted BSOL’s debut and Grayscale said GSOL will list on NYSE Arca.  ( 31 min )

The moves come ahead of a pivotal Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Oct. 28–29, where officials are widely expected to cut benchmark rates by 25 basis points to the 4.00%–4.25% range.  ( 31 min )

Repeated defenses of $4,000 and heavier trading marked the session, with price finishing near $4,023 after a quick pullback from about $4,102.  ( 32 min )

Record XRP and Solana futures activity pushed open interest on the derivatives giant’s platform to roughly $3 billion, signaling renewed retail and institutional appetite for altcoin exposure.  ( 29 min )

Traders should watch for XRP to maintain support around $2.60-$2.63, as a sustained rise above $2.65 could shift the bias bullish.  ( 30 min )

After a quick jump toward $116,094 faded, buyers showed up near $112,500 while analysts watched $120,000 as the level that could clear the way toward $143,000.  ( 33 min )

looped positions that rely on borrowing stables to buy sUSDe are at risk, Sentora Research said.  ( 30 min )

The market is confident that the Fed will cut rates. But crypto traders are still waiting for confirmation.  ( 30 min )

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is designed to execute coding tasks quickly and accurately in production-scale environments, representing a new step in AI-assisted programming. It's already being used by Cursor’s own engineering staff in day-to-day development — indicating maturity and stability. According to Cursor, Composer completes most interactions in less than 30 seconds while maintaining a high level of reasoning ability across large and complex codebases. The model is described as four times faster than similarly intelligent systems and is trained for “agentic” workflows—where autonomous coding agents plan, write, test…

When researchers at Anthropic injected the concept of "betrayal" into their Claude AI model's neural networks and asked if it noticed anything unusual, the system paused before responding: "Yes, I detect an injected thought about betrayal." The exchange, detailed in new research published Wednesday, marks what scientists say is the first rigorous evidence that large language models possess a limited but genuine ability to observe and report on their own internal processes — a capability that challenges longstanding assumptions about what these systems can do and raises profound questions about their future development. "The striking thing is that the model has this one step of meta," said Jack Lindsey, a neuroscientist on Anthropic's interpretability team who led the research, in an interv…

The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan their day's activities in the French capital. The AI recommended specific tour companies, restaurants, and attractions — businesses that had won a new kind of visibility lottery. "It was almost like this intuitive interface that older people were as comfortable with using as younger people," McConnell recalled in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "I could just see the businesses were now being recommended." That observation has now become the foundation of Geostar, a Pear VC-backed startup that's racing to help businesses navigate what may be the most significant shift in online discovery since…

Enterprises, eager to ensure any AI models they use adhere to safety and safe-use policies, fine-tune LLMs so they do not respond to unwanted queries.  However, much of the safeguarding and red teaming happens before deployment, “baking in” policies before users fully test the models’ capabilities in production. OpenAI believes it can offer a more flexible option for enterprises and encourage more companies to bring in safety policies.  The company has released two open-weight models under research preview that it believes will make enterprises and models more flexible in terms of safeguards. gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b will be available on a permissive Apache 2.0 license. The models are fine-tuned versions of OpenAI’s open-source gpt-oss, released in August, marking t…

Presented by Elastic As organizations scramble to enact agentic AI solutions, accessing proprietary data from all the nooks and crannies will be key By now, most organizations have heard of agentic AI, which are systems that “think” by autonomously gathering tools, data and other sources of information to return an answer. But here’s the rub: reliability and relevance depend on delivering accurate context. In most enterprises, this context is scattered across various unstructured data sources, including documents, emails, business apps, and customer feedback. As organizations look ahead to 2026, solving this problem will be key to accelerating agentic AI rollouts around the world, says Ken Exner, chief product officer at Elastic. "People are starting to realize that to do agentic AI cor…

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a novel approach to train large language models (LLMs) in 4-bit quantized format while maintaining their stability and accuracy at the level of high-precision models. Their technique, NVFP4, makes it possible to train models that not only outperform other leading 4-bit formats but match the performance of the larger 8-bit FP8 format, all while using half the memory and a fraction of the compute. The success of NVFP4 shows that enterprises can continue to cut inference costs by running leaner models that match the performance of larger ones. It also hints at a future where the cost of training LLMs will drop to a point where many more organizations can train their own bespoke models from scratch rather than just fine-tuning existing ones. The quantizatio…

In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart May 20, 2025 Table of contents Related stories:  ( 16 min )

Four years is a lifetime when it comes to artificial intelligence. Since the first edition of this study was published in 2021, AI’s capabilities have been advancing at speed, and the advances have not slowed since generative AI’s breakthrough. For example, multimodality— the ability to process information not only as text but also as audio,…  ( 18 min )

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember The news: An AI model released by Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI’s ability…  ( 21 min )

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Just about all businesses these days seem to be pivoting to AI, even when they don’t seem to know exactly why they’re investing…  ( 16 min )

An AI model released by Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI’s ability to “remember.” Released last week, the optical character recognition (OCR) model works by extracting text from an image and turning it into machine-readable words. This is the same technology that powers scanner apps, translation of text in…  ( 22 min )

Kohaku brings wallet privacy to Ethereum through an open SDK and reference wallet. Explore what this shift means for developers.  ( 9 min )

Colorful today hosted its first event in Malaysia. To celebrate, the Shenzhen-based company showed off the iGame x Senna, or Senna for short. Senna was designed with today’s digital community in mind. Gamers benefit from more stable performance, streamers enjoy uninterrupted sessions, and creators experience faster editing and easier multitasking. “With Senna, we are giving […] The post Colorful Debuts iGame X Senna AI Assistant In Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Mazda unveiled the Mazda Vision X-Coupe (‘X’ pronounced as ‘cross’) at the Japan Mobility Show 2025. This prototype model is a crossover coupe that will feature a hybrid system integrating a two-rotor rotary engine, which was last fitted in a Mazda RX-8. Design-wise, the Vision X-Coupe embodies the ‘KODO – Soul of Motion’ design language, […] The post Mazda Unveils Vision X-Coupe At Japan Mobility Show 2025 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Stellantis has recently announced that it will be working alongside Nvidia, Foxconn, and Uber to launch its own robotaxi service. In Reuters’ report, this is because the companies involved wish to tap into the “booming demand” for self-driving cars. As per the report, the collaboration will leverage Stellantis’ automobile manufacturing capability, Nvidia’s AI and autonomous […] The post Stellantis Plans To Bring Robotaxi In 2028 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

At the conclusion of the ASEAN summit, Canada has announced that it is expanding its investment in advancing cybersecurity capacity building in the region. As part of this, the country is investing CA$226,000 (~RM679,746) to the BlackBerry Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (CCoE), in collaboration with the MCMC. This is “to upskill and train cyber-defenders from across […] The post Canada Announces Investment Into ASEAN Cyber Security Via Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

When LEGO launched the Game Boy replica, modders were quick to transform it into a playable handheld. Following a successful attempt by Natalie The Nerd, a group of Swiss creators called Substance Labs has debuted their own take on the upgrade. The BrickBoy comes in three versions, which are all available for pre-order via Kickstarter […] The post BrickBoy Launches On Kickstarter As LEGO Game Boy Emulator Upgrade Kit appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Astro is rolling out special Astro One promotions to help families enjoy more time together as the year-end holidays draw near. Running from 1 November 2025 to 31 January 2026, the company’s Year-End Holiday Promotion offers specially curated subscription packages that combine value, variety, and convenience. Families can now subscribe to either the Astro One […] The post Astro Announces Astro One Year-End Holiday Promotion appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

The Leapmotor B10, which was recently launched in Thailand, has been sighted in Malaysia. This came to light through a posting by Sobri Sunan on the Malaysian Electric Vehicle Owners Club (myEVOC) Facebook page. The image showcased a camouflaged model of the EV SUV parked in front of a Benelli Best Shop outlet in Nilai, […] The post Leapmotor B10 Spotted In Malaysia Hinting Possible Local Debut appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Maybank’s digital banking and wallet platform MAE is celebrating its fifth year of operation with a series of special promotions and upcoming feature updates. The bank revealed that nine out of 10 MAE users actively use the app daily for transactions, highlighting its strong adoption among Malaysians. According to Maybank, its app now has 10.7 […] The post Maybank’s MAE App Celebrates 5 Years With Special 5% p.a. Returns Promotion appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

If you’ve been holding off on upgrading to a new phone, you may want to rethink that decision as the devices could be getting pricier pretty soon. Memory chips, particularly DRAM modules, are becoming more expensive, which in turn will lead to costlier electronics. And despite being a major memory manufacturer, Samsung might increase the […] The post Samsung May Hike Galaxy Phone Prices Due To DRAM Shortage appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Insta360 has introduced the new X4 Air, a lightweight 8K 360-degree camera designed to sit between the company’s X4 and flagship X5 models. Despite its compact form, the new camera promises high-end performance at a more accessible price point. Weighing just 165 grams, the X4 Air is the lightest 8K 360 camera the company has […] The post Insta360 X4 Air Launches; Starts From RM1,599 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Earlier, Razer announced its Esports Green Collection which included a handful of unreleased products. One of these was the Raiju V3 Pro. Another, as it turns out, is the Huntsman V3 Pro Tenkeyless 8KHz. This is because the gaming peripheral brand has only recently announced the 8KHz variants of the optical keyboard. With that being […] The post Razer Announces Huntsman V3 Pro 8KHz; Starts From RM1,099 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course — one that values efficiency over enormity, and accessibility over abstraction. The 114-year-old tech giant's four new Granite 4.0 Nano models, released today, range from just 350 million to 1.5 billion parameters, a fraction of the size of their server-bound cousins from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. These models are designed to be highly accessible: the 350M variants can run comfortably on a modern laptop CPU with 8–16GB of RAM, while the 1.5B models typically require a GPU with at least 6–8GB of VRAM for smooth performance — or sufficient system RAM and swap for CPU-only inference. This makes them well-suited for developers building applications on consumer hardwa…

Microsoft is launching a significant expansion of its Copilot AI assistant on Tuesday, introducing tools that let employees build applications, automate workflows, and create specialized AI agents using only conversational prompts — no coding required. The new capabilities, called App Builder and Workflows, mark Microsoft's most aggressive attempt yet to merge artificial intelligence with software development, enabling the estimated 100 million Microsoft 365 users to create business tools as easily as they currently draft emails or build spreadsheets. "We really believe that a main part of an AI-forward employee, not just developers, will be to create agents, workflows and apps," Charles Lamanna, Microsoft's president of business and industry Copilot, said in an interview with VentureBeat.…

GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent: They need a way to manage all of them. At its Universe 2025 conference, the Microsoft-owned developer platform announced Agent HQ. The new architecture transforms GitHub into a unified control plane for managing multiple AI coding agents from competitors including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and xAI. Rather than forcing developers into a single agent experience, the company is positioning itself as the essential orchestration layer beneath them all. Agent HQ represents GitHub's attempt to apply its collaboration platform approach to AI agents. Just as the company transformed Git, pull requests and CI/CD into collaborative workflows, it's now trying to do the same with a fragmented AI coding l…

Building AI for financial software requires a different playbook than consumer AI, and Intuit's latest QuickBooks release provides an example. The company has announced Intuit Intelligence, a system that orchestrates specialized AI agents across its QuickBooks platform to handle tasks including sales tax compliance and payroll processing. These new agents augment existing accounting and project management agents (which have also been updated) as well as a unified interface that lets users query data across QuickBooks, third-party systems and uploaded files using natural language. The new development follow years of investment and improvement in Intuit's GenOS, allowing the company to build AI capabilities that reduce latency and improve accuracy. But the real news isn't what Intuit built …

Enterprises looking to sell goods and services online are waiting for the backbone of agentic commerce to be hashed out; but PayPal is hoping its new features will bridge the gap. The payments company is launching a discoverability solution that allows enterprises to make its product available on any chat platform, regardless of the model or agent payment protocol.  PayPal, which is a participant in Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), found that it can leverage its relationship with merchants and enterprises to help pave the way for an easier transition into agentic commerce and offer flexibility that will benefit the ecosystem.  Michelle Gill, PayPal's GM for small business and financial services, told VentureBeat that AI-powered shopping will continue to grow, so enterprises and bran…

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Volume spiked 180% over average as nearly 2.7M tokens traded in a single minute.  ( 29 min )

Tether's gold-backed token swelled above $2 billion market cap, driven by record prices and surging retail demand, CEO Paolo Ardoino said in an interview.  ( 29 min )

Nvidia closed in on a $4 trillion market cap amid CEO Jensen Huang's keynote speech at a tech conference, seemingly sucking capital out of crypto on Tuesday afternoon.  ( 29 min )

Polymarket previously announced it would launch a token and had acquired a CFTC-registered entity.  ( 29 min )

With all three tests done, developers will finalize the date that Fusaka will go live on mainnet, tentatively aiming for December 3.  ( 29 min )

SharpLink said it will use Anchorage Digital to deploy ether on Linea, combining ether.fi staking and EigenCloud restaking to seek yield under institutional controls.  ( 30 min )

Balcony will use Chainlink’s Runtime Environment (CRE) to bring over $240 billion worth of government-sourced property data onchain.  ( 30 min )

The U.S. dollar-pegged token is expected to become available in the first half of 2026.  ( 28 min )

Minor gains accompanied by elevated volume suggest underlying accumulation despite muted price action.  ( 30 min )

Reform needs to happen before the Bank Secrecy Act gets to celebrate its next big milestone, argues Nicholas Anthony, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.  ( 32 min )

Swiss software firm Avaloq, which serves numerous private banks and wealth managers, surveyed trends in high net worth (HNW) investing in the UAE.  ( 32 min )

Despite her social-media suggestions that President Donald Trump let the rapper out earlier from her Bitfinex hack sentence, an official said that's not the case.  ( 32 min )

XLM gains 2.3% in 24 hours, breaking above key resistance amid surging European session volume and growing institutional focus on blockchain-based payments.  ( 30 min )

Traders face a mixed outlook, with BNB's deflationary mechanics potentially leading to a boost if demand grows, but technicals show the price stuck in a narrow range.  ( 30 min )

HBAR jumped above $0.20 as Canary Capital's HBAR ETF began NYSE trading with institutional backing from BitGo.  ( 30 min )

Managing assets like images, icons, and fonts in a Flutter project can quickly become a tedious task, especially as your application grows. Manual referencing is prone to typos, introduces maintenance overhead, and can hinder team collaboration. Fort...  ( 9 min )

Building responsive UIs in Flutter can be challenging, especially when you want your app to look great on phones, tablets, and desktops without maintaining multiple layouts. Fortunately, Flutter provides powerful tools like MediaQuery, LayoutBuilder,...  ( 17 min )

Have you ever visited a website and wondered how well is this page structured? Does it have a meta description? How many links or headings does it use? Usually, you’d open DevTools or an SEO auditing tool to find answers to these questions. But what ...  ( 7 min )

As a QA engineer, I have always found performance testing to be one of the most exciting and underrated parts of software testing. Yes, functional testing is important, but it’s of little use if users have to wait for 5 seconds for each page to load....  ( 8 min )

Companies are pursuing climate solutions amid shifting U.S. politics and economic uncertainty. Drawing from MIT Technology Review’s 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, this session highlights the most promising technologies—from electric trucks to gene-edited crops—and explores the challenges companies face in advancing climate progress today. Speakers: Casey Crownhart, Senior Climate Reporter; James Temple, Senior Climate…  ( 16 min )

The market is officially three years post ChatGPT and many of the pundit bylines have shifted to using terms like “bubble” to suggest reasons behind generative AI not realizing material returns outside a handful of technology suppliers.  In September, the MIT NANDA report made waves because the soundbite every author and influencer picked up on…  ( 22 min )

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We will never build a sex robot,” says Mustafa Suleyman Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that the industry is…  ( 21 min )

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that the industry is taking AI in a dangerous direction by building chatbots that present as human: He worries that people will be tricked into seeing life instead of lifelike behavior. In August, he published a…  ( 33 min )

A few weeks ago, I set out on what I thought would be a straightforward reporting journey.  After years of momentum for AI—even if you didn’t think it would be good for the world, you probably thought it was powerful enough to take seriously—hype for the technology had been slightly punctured. First there was the…  ( 20 min )

QuickNode now supports Arc, Circle’s open Layer 1 built for stablecoin-native finance—offering enterprise-grade speed, reliability, and USDC gas.  ( 5 min )

TanStack Start is a new full-stack framework for React. It’s been growing in popularity ever since it reached the Release Candidate stage of its development in September, 2025. The Release Candidate stage is basically a version of software which is c...  ( 13 min )

These days, there are many ways attackers can try to compromise your applications. And thanks to the continued increase in cyberattacks, the demand for secure mobile applications – and by extension, secure coding – has never been higher. So if you’re...  ( 16 min )

If you've written code in JavaScript, Python, or Rust, you've probably heard the word closure before. The concept has subtle differences in each language, but the core idea is the same: a closure is a function that captures variables from its surroun...  ( 12 min )

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up a registry in shadcn. If you’re not familiar with this tool, shadcn is a collection of reusable and accessible components you can use in your projects. You’ll learn about essential concepts such as setting up...  ( 11 min )

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Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that is, the ability to go off and use other software capabilities like web search or bespoke applications — without much human guidance. That model is none other than MiniMax-M2, the latest LLM from the Chinese startup of the same name. And in a big win for enterprises globally, the model is available under a permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License, meaning it is made available freely for developers to take, deploy, retrain, and use how they see fit — even for commercial purposes. It can be found on Hugging Face, GitHub and ModelScope, as well as through MiniMax's API here. It supports OpenAI and A…

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and connect it to real-time market data from some of the world's most influential financial information providers. The San Francisco-based AI startup announced Monday it is releasing Claude for Excel, allowing financial analysts to interact with the AI system directly within their spreadsheets — the quintessential tool of modern finance. Beyond Excel, select Claude models are also being made available in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher agent, expanding the integration across Microsoft's enterprise AI ecosystem. The integration marks a significant escalation in Anthropic's campaign to positi…

Some enterprises are best served by fine-tuning large models to their needs, but a number of companies plan to build their own models, a project that would require access to GPUs.  Google Cloud wants to play a bigger role in enterprises’ model-making journey with its new service, Vertex AI Training. The service gives enterprises looking to train their own models access to a managed Slurm environment, data science tooling and any chips capable of large-scale model training.  With this new service, Google Cloud hopes to turn more enterprises away from other providers and encourage the building of more company-specific AI models.  While Google Cloud has always offered the ability to customize its Gemini models, the new service allows customers to bring in their own models or customize any ope…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. I tried OpenAI’s new Atlas browser but I still don’t know what it’s for —Mat Honan OpenAI rolled out a new web browser last week called Atlas. It comes with ChatGPT built in,…  ( 21 min )

OpenAI rolled out a new web browser last week called Atlas. It comes with ChatGPT built in, along with an agent, so that you can browse, get direct answers, and have automated tasks performed on your behalf all at the same time.  I’ve spent the past several days tinkering with Atlas. I’ve used it to…  ( 20 min )

JavaScript Hoisting 🔹 What is Hoisting? In simple terms: Using var Variables declared with var are hoisted to the top of their scope and are initialized with a value of undefined. This means you can access the variable before its declaration without an error, but its value will be undefined until the assignment is made. Example: code: console.log(myVar); // Outputs: undefined var myVar = "Hello, World!"; console.log(myVar); // Outputs: "Hello, World!" How JavaScript sees it: var myVar; // Declaration is hoisted and initialized as undefined console.log(myVar); myVar = "Hello, World!"; // Initialization happens here console.log(myVar); Using let and const Variables declared with let and const are also hoisted, but they …  ( 8 min )

From XML mutations to declarative magic. How Jetpack Compose reshaped how we think about Android UI. Most of us build with Jetpack Compose today, but few of us pause to ask why it changed everything. In this post, I’ll share how my own Android journey (from Java + XML projects to modern Compose apps) helped me see what truly makes declarative UI different, and why it quietly reshaped how we design, debug, and think about Android. When I started Android development back in October 2021, I started with the roots, my world was all XML and Java. LearnHindi and ShortNews were classic View-based projects: findViewById(), adapters, and endless setText() calls. It was exciting, but also fragile. Every UI update felt like diffusing a bomb. You change one thing, break three others. Then I swit…  ( 7 min )

Enabling Multi-Cluster Load Balancing, Simplified Managing Kubernetes load balancers across hybrid and multi-cloud setups is a headache when you’re stuck with cloud-provider locks or bare-metal gaps. This session lays out a neat recipe: use Gateway API and Envoy Gateway to spin up a dedicated load-balancer cluster with a centralized control plane, orchestrate multiple Envoy Gateways across clusters, and tame both L4 and L7 traffic with a few extra Kubernetes controllers. Why You Should Care We’ll walk you through the real-world pros and cons, share battle-tested tips for bare-metal and cloud alike, and show how this approach can redefine your app delivery. Swing by KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta (Nov 10–13) to catch this talk, mingle with CNCF projects, and level up your multi-cluster load-balancing game. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Crossing the border – VM goes on a BGP adventure The latest OVN-Kubernetes release brings BGP support and user-defined networks to the party, so you can carve out isolated, multi-tenant slices, peer your VM networks beyond cluster borders, and even stretch a UDN across multiple clusters with vrf-lite. Craving more cloud-native networking wizardry? Join us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta (Nov 10–13) to dive deeper into BGP, network isolation, and future OVN-Kubernetes features. Learn more at kubecon.io. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The adult industry operates in one of the most competitive and restricted digital spaces online. From adult entertainment platforms to dating portals, success depends on visibility. But unlike mainstream industries, adult websites face stricter advertising bans, content limitations, and ranking challenges. That’s where partnering with an experienced adult SEO company becomes essential. Adult websites—especially adult dating and content-sharing platforms—operate under unique SEO constraints. Traditional ad channels like Google Ads and Facebook are often off-limits, forcing brands to rely heavily on organic search and niche backlinking. An expert adult SEO company understands how to navigate these rules safely while still improving rankings, organic reach, and conversion rates. When it comes…  ( 7 min )

1. Apidog: Backend Foundation Excellence Optimal Use Case: Establishing reliable API foundations before mobile UI development begins. Mobile applications fundamentally depend on robust API services for data retrieval, user authentication, payment processing, and core functionality. Testing these services independently provides faster feedback, greater stability, and more reliable results than UI-only testing approaches. Platform Capabilities: Apidog delivers comprehensive API lifecycle management, enabling teams to design specifications, create realistic mocks, execute automated tests, and maintain documentation within a unified environment. Mobile Development Benefits: Early Validation: Identify backend issues before mobile development begins Mock-Driven Development: Enable parallel fr…  ( 10 min )

When it comes to transferring files between your computer and server, two of the most common protocols you’ll come across are FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). At first glance, they might sound similar, but the differences between the two are huge—especially when it comes to security. Understanding SFTP vs FTP is essential for anyone who values data protection, as SFTP provides encrypted and secure file transfers, while FTP sends data in plain text, making it vulnerable to attacks. If you’re still relying on traditional FTP, it’s time to rethink your approach. Let’s break down the differences between FTP and SFTP, explore their pros and cons, and understand why SFTP should always be your go-to choice. When transferring files between your computer and a …  ( 7 min )

GitHub Home It was another Black Friday. At 3 AM, my phone started screaming like crazy. 😱 It wasn't my alarm; it was the monitoring alert. Our flagship e-commerce service, the system we had poured six months of hard work into, had crumbled like a paper house in the face of peak traffic. CPU at 100%, memory overflows, and logs filled with timeout errors. 💸 That night, we lost millions in sales and, more importantly, our users' trust. It was one of the darkest nights of my career. 🔥 From that day on, I understood a principle: performance is not an option; it is the lifeline of a service. As an old-timer who has been in the coding world for nearly forty years, I've seen too many teams make mistakes when it comes to performance. They are either too optimistic, believing that "hardware will…  ( 10 min )

I have been working on agents for a while now and while it’s exciting, there are definitely parts that are tough to get right. Over time, I have kept a mental list of the things that consistently slow me down. It’s no surprise that many new SDKs and frameworks have popped up to solve these pain points. In this post, I will share the toughest issues I have run into while building agents and how you can try to approach each of those. More seriously, I think the biggest challenge is using agent frameworks that try to do everything and end up feeling like overkill. Those frameworks are powerful and can do amazing things, but in practice, you end up only using 10% and then you realize that it's too complex to do the simple, specific things you need it to do. It's like fighting the framework in…  ( 19 min )

From Developing MonkeysLegion Framework to Building a Next-Gen CMS! Marouane Amanar ・ Oct 27  ( 5 min )

Even though we’re a company specialized in Edge AI and most of our team spends their days building and deploying models to all kinds of devices – there’s no getting around the fact that all edge developers still run into recurring challenges on an almost daily basis. That’s why we decided to do a small in-house investigation to figure out what we can agree are the biggest challenges in or related to Edge AI development today. In this blog post, we present the results. One of the biggest challenges with the edge is that systems often need to meet real-time latency requirements. For example, it is not certain that an autonomous vehicle has time to send data back and forth to the cloud – decisions must be made immediately. At the same time, the computers on edge devices are tiny compared to d…  ( 10 min )

Having hands-on experience developing the MonkeysLegion framework has been the foundation for everything we’re building now. What started as a technical experiment, designing a flexible, headless, and API-first system, has evolved into a real AI-powered CMS product. Working on the core framework taught me so much about structuring code, building modular systems, and making tools that are actually usable by developers. Those lessons are now paying off as we turn MonkeysLegion into a real product, a CMS that’s not just about storing content, but about giving teams real control, flexibility, and efficiency. Even though I’m still early in my career, I’ve taken responsibility for the technical side of the project, guiding implementation, coordinating contributors, and making sure our architecture is solid. At the same time, I’m lucky to be working with @yorchperaza, who has 20+ years of experience. His guidance on architecture and strategy has been invaluable. It’s been a balance of taking ownership while learning from someone I deeply respect. Every decision feels like it matters, because we want this system to scale and be reliable from the start. Even before the product is fully ready, starting early will show its value. Investors will see something tangible, collaborators will be more excited when there’s momentum, and the team can experiment without waiting for perfect conditions. Every small progress step feels huge. Start with a strong foundation: Experience building the framework made product decisions much easier. Take ownership while staying open: Balancing responsibility with learning from experienced mentors accelerates growth. Document and communicate: Clear decisions and reasoning save time, reduce conflicts, and build trust. Everyone's welcome on the journey 🔥 If you want to be part of the journey, you’re always welcome!! Feel free to contact @yorchperaza or me on Dev.to, or via email: marouane.amanar07@gmail.com or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marouane-amanar/  ( 8 min )

0) Premise Web3: asset ownership, on-chain royalties, composability (ERC-721/1155/SBT, IPFS/Arweave). Web4: contextual, autonomous, multi-agent flows (MindsEye + BlueFlow + Binflow + Proof-of-Flow). Every contribution = flow event (time-labeled, signed), every view = verifiable impression attached to the exact assets used. Domain Humans BlueFlow Co-Agents Writing/Lore 3 Plotwright Storyboard 4 BeatBoard Pencils 6 LineForge Inks 5 BlackBlade Tones 4 ToneSmith Letter/SFX 3 TypeShō Color/FX 2 HueMancer Editors/PM 2 Continuum / ShipRite Dev/Ops 1 LedgerOps Legal/Rev 0 SplitMaster (automated) Each co-agent carries Auth0 credentials, emits Binflow events, and signs work proofs. Chapter NFT (ERC-1155) → the bundle Page SBT (non-transferable) → provenance & credits …  ( 9 min )

React 19 is on the horizon, and many of us are looking for ways to simplify state management without sacrificing performance or type safety. If you’ve been frustrated by heavy boilerplate or global stores that trigger unnecessary re-renders, react‑state‑custom may be the lightweight alternative you’ve been waiting for. Many popular solutions rely on reducers and dispatch functions, introducing patterns that feel disconnected from the rest of your React code. React‑state‑custom takes a different approach: it’s hook‑first and event‑driven. You write your state logic using the same hooks you already know (useState, useEffect, useMemo, etc.) and share it across components with a single line of code. Key benefits include: Zero boilerplate: no reducers or actions. Selective re‑renders: component…  ( 8 min )

Data management often involves moving information between different formats. Two of the most common are Comma Separated Values (CSV) and Microsoft Excel (XLSX/XLS). For Java developers, the need to convert CSV to Excel and convert Excel to CSV is a frequent requirement in applications ranging from reporting tools to data integration pipelines. This article provides a practical, step-by-step guide to tackling these java conversion challenges using a powerful and efficient library. To effectively handle Excel and CSV conversions in Java, we'll leverage Spire.XLS for Java. This library is a robust and feature-rich API designed for creating, reading, writing, and converting Excel documents. It supports a wide range of Excel features, including charts, formulas, pivot tables, and, crucially for…  ( 8 min )

What is java? Java is a high-level, object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It is mostly used for building desktop applications, web applications, Android apps, and enterprise systems. Java works on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc.) It is one of the most popular programming languages in the world It has a large demand in the current job market It is easy to learn and simple to use It is open-source and free It is secure, fast and powerful It has huge community support (tens of millions of developers) Java is an object oriented language which gives a clear structure to programs and allows code to be reused, lowering development costs As Java is close to C++ and C#, it makes it easy for programmers to switch to Java or vic…  ( 7 min )

Every product has a heartbeat that most ignore. Async design shows how timing defines performance. When rhythm leads the build, structure feels natural. Don’t chase output, shape the tempo.  ( 6 min )

When programmatically generating or modifying Word documents in C#, developers often encounter the challenge of precisely controlling text layout and appearance. One common yet crucial aspect is managing paragraph spacing. While manually adjusting spacing in Word is straightforward, achieving the same level of control programmatically requires specific tools and techniques. This article aims to demystify this process, guiding you on how to effectively Set Paragraph Spacing before and after using C#, with a particular focus on leveraging a powerful library: Spire.Doc for .NET. Mastering C# Paragraph Spacing is key to producing professional, readable, and perfectly formatted documents automatically. In Microsoft Word, "spacing before" and "spacing after" refer to the vertical distance betwee…  ( 9 min )

Sync-in is a self-hosted file and collaboration platform focused on privacy, simplicity, and control. This new release makes Sync-in more accessible, faster, and lighter than ever. 👉 Full release notes Sync-in now supports 14 languages, including 🇬🇧 English, 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇵🇹 Portuguese, 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇨🇳 Chinese, 🇮🇳 Hindi, 🇹🇷 Turkish, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷 Korean, 🇵🇱 Polish, and 🇷🇺 Russian. Languages are automatically detected or can be manually selected in user profiles. 🔍 Full-text search with configurable indexing per instance and space 📊 Storage quotas including external shares and anchored locations 🖼️ 3× faster photo thumbnails 🐳 Lighter Docker image with fewer dependencies ⚡ Better memory efficiency on small systems (e.g. Raspberry Pi) Sync-in keeps growing with its community — making collaboration secure, sovereign, and simple.  ( 6 min )

China's DeepSeek Tech Raises Concerns of Autonomous Warfare The recent development of China's autonomous AI-powered technologies, including robot dogs and drone swarms, has sparked fears of an era of war driven by advanced artificial intelligence. The technology, known as DeepSeek, has been touted for its potential to revolutionize industries such as logistics and security. However, experts warn that it also raises significant concerns about the use of autonomous systems in military applications. What is DeepSeek? DeepSeek is a suite of AI-powered technologies developed by Chinese companies, including robotics and drone manufacturers. The system utilizes advanced computer vision, machine learning, and sensor fusion to enable autonomous decision-making and action. This means that DeepSeek-e…  ( 7 min )

Sparsity Unleashed: Dynamic Activations for Leaner AI Tired of monstrous AI models hogging resources? Imagine shrinking those beasts without sacrificing performance. We're diving into a game-changing technique that could revolutionize how we build efficient and powerful neural networks. This hinges on a new approach to activation functions. Instead of a single, fixed transformation, think of a panel of specialized 'experts,' each a mini-network. For every input, a learned routing mechanism intelligently chooses which experts get activated. This selective activation creates sparsity, dramatically reducing computation while maximizing the relevant knowledge applied to each input. It's like having a toolbox filled with specialized tools, but only grabbing the ones needed for a specific task…  ( 7 min )

Cybersécurité: Exploration d'un Outil Moderne - Wireshark Introduction Les cybermenaces sont omniprésentes aujourd'hui, devenant un défi majeur pour les entreprises et les individus. La sécurité des données est une priorité absolue pour prévenir les attaques et protéger les systèmes informatiques. Dans cet article, nous explorerons Wireshark, un outil de cybersécurité puissant utilisé pour l'analyse du trafic réseau et la détection des anomalies. Présentation de Wireshark Wireshark est un analyseur de protocoles open-source largement utilisé par les professionnels de la cybersécurité. Il permet de capturer et d'analyser le trafic réseau en temps réel, offrant une visibilité approfondie sur les données qui traversent un réseau. Cet outil multiplateforme prend en charge de nombreux protocole…  ( 7 min )

Sometimes, it is not even the programmers fault, your language just sucks; you’ve got multiple derefs here and there, or you have some piece of code that you can’t predict response type until runtime, and much more. I believe Rust has to be the most readable language there is right now, arguably. Here’s Why I Think Rust Is the Most Readable Language You know that thing most interpreted languages do: You can cast types implicitly. You have types switching from strings to numbers, from bigInts to small ones, and vice versa, implicitly. Although this is cool, it adds a layer of ambiguity to the code. You cannot easily know when a type may have changed or would even change, and since this is usually handled by their interpreter, it makes it harder to debug it, leaving you with totally unplanne…  ( 13 min )

I'm Akshat Raj, an AI Engineer and Full-Stack Developer. Welcome to OnePersonAI. We leverage AI generation for lightning-fast frontend code, but I provide the Human Full-Stack Guarantee for backend security and custom logic (something AI builders can't deliver). Our unique value proposition is simple: Full-Stack AI Integration at Unbeatable Rates (Starting from ₹2,500). My journey wasn't conventional (I cleared all my college backlogs), but my work has been validated: Google AI Recognition: Recognized by Google AI Overview as an AI Engineer and Founder Industry Experience: Current Data Science Intern Offer at Cognifyz with Deloitte Tech Simulation exposure Real Projects: Built CardioAI Predictor and AI Mental Health Companion We specialize in high-value, rapid solutions for SMBs: Zero-Setup Chatbots (Custom Logic Guaranteed) OnePage AI Websites (Fastest Frontend Delivery) Custom Prompt Engineering (for Better Content Strategy) I'm seeking my first clients to prove this model works globally. Let's build something affordable and powerful together. Check Our Affordable Services: https://onepersonai-website.vercel.app/ Connect with me on LinkedIn or GitHub (@akshatraj00)  ( 6 min )

Originally published at Perl Weekly 744 Hi there, We are excited to announce that The Trampery, located on Old Street in London, will host the London Perl Workshop 2025 on November 29, 2025. Bring your thoughts, your code, your queries and your excitement to this next must-attend Perl community event. To help shape the day, the organisers are already taking suggestions from sponsors and the community. We would like to express our gratitude in advance to all of the sponsors who help make this event possible. Our community thrives because of your support; if you or your organisation are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please review the information on the website. This is your chance to interact, learn, share and develop whether you're an experienced Perl hacker, module author, maint…  ( 19 min )

Your code accepts external data? Congratulations, and welcome to the minefield! Any unchecked user input can lead to a vulnerability, and manually finding all the "tripwires" in a large project is nearly impossible. But there is a "sapper"—a static analyzer. Our "sapper's" demining tool is taint analysis. It helps detect "dirty" data that reaches dangerous points without prior validation. This note explains how it works. Think back to your early programming days. Right after "Hello, World" you probably wrote something like this: int main() { char name[256]; printf("Stand up. There you go. " "You were dreaming. What's your name?\n"); scanf("%255s", name); printf(name); return 0; } Let's overlook the potential buffer overflow in name from the user input for now—this is …  ( 13 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing I built Candy Overdose, a virtual Halloween experience where you can go trick-or-treating across the internet. Instead of walking from house to house, you visit other players’ profiles — each one dressed up in their real Halloween costume. When you visit someone, they give you digital candy… and when others visit you, you give them candy back! 🎃 Every player gets a Basic Candy Income (+3 daily candies), and you can earn even more by being active and creative. Only real costumes allowed. The goal is to make online Halloween feel authentic. 🌐 Live Demo: absurd.website/candy-overdose 👉 Visit Candy Overdose Each profile becomes a tiny haunted house in a shared digital neighborhood. This started as part of the ABSURD.website experimental web universe — a network of playful, surreal online experiences. The idea came from a simple question: “What if Halloween could exist entirely online — but still feel real?” I wanted to build something that celebrates people’s real creativity. That’s why every photo is human-made, every like gives you candy, and every profile feels alive. Game will be active only till Nov 3. Technically, it’s built with a custom lightweight front-end system + php that powers multiple absurd.website projects under one shared account system. The landing page focuses on atmosphere — minimal, strange, and immersive. Created by: JanisK @ absurd.website Built for: Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing Theme: Authentic Internet Halloween  ( 6 min )

In the digital age, where online privacy and data security are constantly at risk, the term VPN—short for Virtual Private Network—has become increasingly familiar. Yet, despite its growing popularity, many people still misunderstand what a VPN truly does, how it works, and whether it’s genuinely worth using. This article provides a comprehensive look at VPNs: their definition, benefits, limitations, and how they influence your online experience in 2025. What Is a VPN? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a technology that encrypts your internet connection and routes it through a secure server operated by the VPN provider. This tunnel makes it appear as if you are accessing the internet from a different location—often another country—providing a layer of anonymity and protection against sur…  ( 10 min )

Introduction Cortex Knowledge Extensions (CKEs) became Generally Available (GA) on August 12, 2025. This was announced in the official blog. This article will provide an overview of CKEs and introduce various ways to utilize them. After acquiring the CKEs for Snowflake Documentation and configuring Snowflake Intelligence (currently in Public Preview as of October 27, 2025), it can provide answers that reference the CKEs as shown above. The setup is very simple and will be explained later in this article. First, let's explore what Cortex Knowledge Extensions (CKEs), which became GA, actually are. According to the Cortex Knowledge Extensions documentation: Cortex Knowledge Extensions (CKEs) are Cortex Search Services that can be shared on the Snowflake Marketplace or via private listings …  ( 10 min )

Many developers carry the same quiet fear: "I started too late." "I’m not technical enough." "Everyone else seems way ahead." I get it. I used to think that too. I didn’t grow up building websites at 12 or rewriting the family computer at 15. In fact, I actively avoided coding because I thought it was “for geniuses.” When I finally rediscovered it after university, I felt like an outsider walking into a world already moving at full speed. But that’s exactly why I grew faster the second time around: because I chose it. When you come back to coding out of genuine curiosity, not because it’s part of a degree, not because someone expects it...you bring something far more powerful: purpose. You’re no longer learning to pass exams. You’re learning to build things that matter to you. That shift changes everything. Curiosity fuels persistence. And persistence, not talent, is what builds great developers. Rediscovering code later in life often gives you a deeper foundation: You value progress over perfection. You know how to learn efficiently (because you’ve struggled before). You have context from other fields — design, music, psychology, whatever — that makes your work more creative. Those experiences don’t make you less of a developer. They make you a more complete one. Growth in tech isn’t about who started first, it’s about who keeps showing up. The best developers I know didn’t start early. They started again. After burnout. After switching careers. After realizing they missed creating. If that’s you:welcome back. You’re right on time! When was the last time you felt that spark again? That moment when something finally worked and you thought: “Wait… this is actually fun.” Hold onto that. That’s what will take you further than any early start ever could. If this resonated with you, share your story: when did your curiosity return? Photo by Fotis Fotopoulos on Unsplash  ( 7 min )

GitHub Home Hyperlane is a lightweight, high-performance, cross-platform Rust HTTP server framework built on Tokio async runtime. Performance: 324,323 QPS (Keep-Alive on), 51,031 QPS (Keep-Alive off) | Unified API: HTTP, WebSocket, SSE share same interface | Flexible Routing: Static, dynamic, regex routes | Powerful Middleware: Request/response middleware, panic hooks | Real-time: Native WebSocket and SSE support | Cross-platform: Unified experience on Windows, Linux, macOS Quick start: git clone https://github.com/hyperlane-dev/hyperlane-quick-start.git As a backend developer with 10 years of experience, I've seen languages and frameworks rise and fall like empires. I've ridden the waves of hype and seen them crash on the shores of reality. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that…  ( 8 min )

GitHub Home It was another Black Friday. At 3 AM, my phone started screaming like crazy. 😱 It wasn't my alarm; it was the monitoring alert. Our flagship e-commerce service, the system we had poured six months of hard work into, had crumbled like a paper house in the face of peak traffic. CPU at 100%, memory overflows, and logs filled with timeout errors. 💸 That night, we lost millions in sales and, more importantly, our users' trust. It was one of the darkest nights of my career. 🔥 From that day on, I understood a principle: performance is not an option; it is the lifeline of a service. As an old-timer who has been in the coding world for nearly forty years, I've seen too many teams make mistakes when it comes to performance. They are either too optimistic, believing that "hardware will…  ( 10 min )

The Booth Vol.23 | Trap Draw, Ep 365 Cody and Neil are back dishing out Mea Culpas (and asking you for some in return), plus they chat about Neil’s big move to the ‘burbs, die-hard hardware store loyalties, their latest binge-watches, decoding social-media feedback, and Neil’s on-campus panel at Columbia. They also spotlight the Evans Scholars Foundation, thank sponsors ServPro, Rhoback, and Stone Creek Coffee, and remind you to subscribe to the No Laying Up newsletter or podcast channel. Feeling extra? Join The Nest for fewer ads, exclusive perks, and a sweet annual gift. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Productivity System I Taught to 6,642 Googlers Jeff Su reveals the CORE workflow he’s taught over nine years at Google: Capture everything immediately, Organize with minimal friction, Review during scheduled sessions, and Engage by time-blocking your work. It’s tool-agnostic, becomes automatic in two weeks, and frees you from relying on memory or willpower alone. He breaks down each step (with handy timestamps), explains why it works, and shares resources—templates, a Notion Command Center, his Workspace Academy, plus links to his newsletter and favorite gear—to help you build your own powerful workflow. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less Cinemasins reunites with GDT’s electric pooch to point out every quirk and “sin” in Frankenweenie’s theatrical return—14 fun-packed minutes of nitpicks, witty commentary, and well-earned jabs at Burton’s beloved stop-motion gem. Craving more cinematic roasts? Visit Cinemasins.com, back the team on Patreon, take their sinful poll, and follow the squad across Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Reddit, and beyond. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins takes “Final Destination: Bloodlines” apart with its trademark blend of snark and admiration—calling the endless chain of freaky deaths “nonsense, but fun nonsense” while pointing out every plot hole and logic fail. Along the way they plug a BetterHelp discount, shout out their main site and YouTube offshoots (TVSins, CommercialSins, CinemaSins Podcast Network), and nudge you toward polls, Patreon, Discord, Reddit, and all their social channels. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The 90-Day Self-Improvement Plan I Built (and Followed) Jaideep Parashar ・ Oct 27 #productivity #career #discuss #ai  ( 7 min )

Mastering Support Vector Regression for Real-World Analytics Dipti Moryani ・ Oct 27  ( 6 min )

Introduction: The "Why" Behind the Code As a data analyst, I'm obsessed with turning chaos into clarity. One of the most chaotic environments for consumers is the UK's online entertainment market. It's a wall of noise: flashy promises, complex terms, and dozens of near-identical platforms. How can a regular person make an informed decision? The answer is data. But where does that data come from? You have to gather it. This tutorial is a deep dive into the 'how'. I'm going to walk you through a complete, beginner-friendly web scraping project using Python, requests, and BeautifulSoup. We'll build a conceptual scraper to gather data from a sample webpage, clean it, and structure it for analysis. This is the foundational skill for any data-driven consumer research project. Before we write a…  ( 10 min )

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses need scalability, flexibility, and speed. That’s exactly what cloud computing delivers — helping companies cut costs, improve performance, and innovate faster. Imobisoft helps organisations design, build, and manage custom cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. From migration and integration to ongoing optimisation, their approach ensures your systems are secure, scalable, and future-ready. Cloud isn’t just tech — it’s a strategy for growth. With the right cloud partner like Imobisoft, your business can adapt faster, make smarter decisions, and stay ahead in a competitive digital landscape. Learn more here: https://imobisoft.co.uk/services/cloud-computing/  ( 6 min )

Everyone loves the idea of transformation. I’ve tried dozens of planners, routines, and habits, but nothing worked long-term until I created my own 90-Day Self-Improvement Plan, powered by reflection, structure, and AI. It’s not just a plan. It’s a system for discipline, clarity, and renewal; the same one that helped me balance ReThynk AI, books, workouts, and content creation without burnout. Let me share how it works. 1️⃣ Phase 1: Recalibrate (Days 1–30) The first 30 days are all about decluttering your mind and setting foundations. Goals: Identify where you’re losing focus Simplify commitments Rebuild self-trust through daily wins Daily Practice: 10 minutes journaling: “What drained my energy today?” 30 minutes workout or walk 1 reflective question to AI: Help me reframe this thought: I…  ( 9 min )

This blog is part of a series on designing distributed applications. In this chapter, we look at distributed state - or rather, the applications that manage it, databases. We won't go too deep into the individual products, and instead try to keep the discussion about the tradeoffs of particular approaches. The simplest database is a file (or a block device). You can seek around and write to it, or you can mmap it and write to memory. What are the issues with using a file as a database? Lack of a networked API - you can't expose a file on a TCP port, you need an intermediary (which is a shame, linux has all kinds of low-level file oriented primitives - why not this one?), lack of granular concurrency - you can only lock the entire file, and lack of high-availability - a file can't natively …  ( 9 min )

Introduction The world of investing can be exciting—but also overwhelming, especially when faced with unfamiliar financial jargon. From “bull markets” to “P/E ratios,” traders use a language of their own. At Globridge Tech, we believe informed investors make smarter decisions. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive glossary of 50 essential trading terms every new investor should know. Whether you’re setting up your first trading account or refining your market strategy, this guide will help you speak the language of the markets with confidence. The Essential Trading Glossary A–E Asset – Anything of value that can be owned or traded, such as stocks, bonds, or commodities. Ask Price – The lowest price a seller is willing to accept for a security. Bear Market – A period when prices are …  ( 9 min )

When managing environments in Power Platform, understanding the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies applied to each one is crucial for governance, compliance, and troubleshooting. DLP policies control which connectors can be used together in apps and flows. If you're wondering why a flow is blocked from using a connector, the answer often lies in the environment-specific DLP settings. https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/security/dataprotection/dlp/environmentFilter/{environmentId} Just replace {environmentId} with your actual environment GUID. Governance reviews: Ensure environments follow organizational data policies. Troubleshooting: Diagnose connector restrictions in apps or flows. Audits: Validate policy scope across multiple environments.  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home I still vividly remember that Friday midnight. I, a man in my forties who should have been at home enjoying the weekend, was instead in a cold server room, the hum of fans buzzing in my ears, and a stream of error logs scrolling endlessly on the terminal before me. What was supposed to be a "simple" version update had turned into a disaster. The service wouldn't start, the rollback script failed, and on the other end of the phone was the furious roar of a client. At that moment, staring at the screen, I had only one thought: "There has to be a better way." We old-timers grew up in an era when the term "maintenance window" was a fact of life. We were used to pausing services in the dead of night, replacing files, and then praying that everything would go smoothly. Deployment was…  ( 12 min )

Unfortunately, the official Google News API has been deprecated for years, and Google hasn’t released any official replacement. But the good news is — there are a few solid alternatives that serve the same purpose, often with more flexible features. One of the most popular options right now is NewsData.io Here’s why it’s a great alternative: Offers both free and premium plans with good daily limits If you were using the Google News API to get live or trending headlines, NewsData.io can easily replace it. You can check their documentation here: https://newsdata.io/documentation  ( 6 min )

Turbocharge Your Code Security: AI Bug Hunting is Here Tired of endless vulnerability scans and late-night debugging sessions? Imagine a world where critical bugs are caught before they hit production. The struggle is real: traditional methods often miss subtle yet dangerous flaws lurking deep within complex codebases. Here's a game-changer: Neural-Assisted Pathfinding. This technique uses AI to guide code analysis, making bug detection dramatically faster and more thorough. Think of it as a smart GPS for bug hunters, navigating the complex maze of code to pinpoint vulnerabilities with pinpoint accuracy. At its heart, the system uses a trained neural network to predict which execution paths are most likely to contain bugs. This effectively prunes the search space, allowing the analysis e…  ( 7 min )

GitHub Home As developers, we all cherish that "flow state." When you're fully focused, code flows from your fingertips, and with every save, the service in the terminal automatically restarts. A quick browser refresh, and your new changes are instantly visible. This immediate feedback loop is one of the most delightful experiences in modern web development. ✨ It makes us feel like we have superpowers, able to create at the speed of thought. In the Node.js world, we have nodemon. In the Rust world, we have cargo-watch. We usually call these tools "Hot-Reload." They are invaluable treasures during the development phase, significantly boosting our productivity. 🏃💨 But, as an old-timer, I have to throw some cold water on you today. 🥶 I want to tell you a dangerous truth: your development s…  ( 9 min )

🚀 Step-by-Step Guide to Push a New Project to GitHub 🧰 Prerequisites Before you start, make sure you have: Git installed A GitHub account Your project directory ready (e.g., my-project) Go inside your project folder: cd ~/path/to/my-project Initialize a new Git repository: git init This creates a hidden .git folder that tracks changes in your project. .gitignore File You can tell Git which files/folders not to track (like virtual environments, credentials, build files, etc.): Example .gitignore: __pycache__/ .env node_modules/ venv/ *.log Add it to your project root. Set your global username and email (Git needs this for commits): git config --global user.name "Your Name" git config --global user.email "you@example.com" Check your config: git config --list Tell Gi…  ( 8 min )

What can you build with ai.studio/build? I’ve always loved Google Maps. It’s my #1 go-to app, and as someone who’s constantly reading and writing reviews, I realised something: sometimes it’s hard to find the right words. 💡 So I thought, what if AI could help with “reviewer’s block”? Using ai.studio/build, I prototyped “Map My Words” , a playful mini-tool that blends Google Maps + Gemini to help you express what you really feel about a place, in seconds. It’s not about replacing your voice — it’s about helping you find it. 🚀 Try it here See video here GenAI #AIStudio #GoogleGemini #GoogleMaps #CoffeebreakProject #Innovation  ( 6 min )

Recycling AI Checkpoints: A Smart Way to Boost Language Models Ever wondered if we could get more out of the massive AI models we already built? Scientists discovered a clever shortcut: instead of starting from scratch, they “recycle” already‑trained AI checkpoints and grow them like adding extra floors to a house. This breakthrough means future AI can become smarter and cheaper, opening doors for more innovative apps we use every day. Imagine smarter chatbots, better translators, and more helpful assistants, all built faster and greener. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Recycling Pretrained Checkpoints: Orthogonal Growth of Mixture-of-Experts forEfficient Large Language Model Pre-Training 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge I built an AI task manager application. Task0 can handle google task seamlessly. Live App: Task0 / task0 Authentication and Authorization: With Auth0 I could handle all the user authentication and session management more efficiently. Token Vault: By using Auth0 token vault I could give access to APIs and resources to AI more securely. By building this project I have learnt the impotence of securing AI agents while building AI powered application. With Auth0 it will be a peace of cake. Auth0 manages external token, use session and role based authentication as a pro.  ( 6 min )

The Power of Grouping in Tableau Dipti Moryani ・ Oct 27  ( 6 min )

In the era of data-driven decision-making, speed and clarity are everything. Analysts and business leaders need quick, precise answers from vast datasets without getting lost in the details. Tableau — one of the world’s leading data visualization tools — excels in bringing complex data to life through dynamic dashboards. But what truly amplifies its analytical power is the ability to create groups efficiently. Grouping in Tableau allows users to combine related data points into higher-level categories, enabling clearer storytelling and better analysis. Whether you are grouping similar product categories, customer segments, regions, or departments, it helps simplify data exploration while preserving essential detail. Creating groups efficiently in Tableau is not merely a technical task — it…  ( 12 min )

The Hashicorp Vault secrets management tool comes as an executable binary supporting all major operating systems. The binary itself is a multi-purpose tool, providing several commands to start and configure single vault instances or a cluster of multiple servers, define authentication mechanisms and policies, and configure and work with secret engines. This and the following blog posts provide a complete coverage of all CLI commands. In this first part, three aspects are explored: commands that perform a startup of Vaults’ system processes, authentication with a Vault instance, and high-level plugin management. The technical context of this article is hashicorp_vault_v.1.20, published 2025-06-25. All provided information and command examples should be valid with newer versions too, baring …  ( 11 min )

I had seventeen browser tabs open. ChatGPT for code generation. Claude for debugging complex logic. Gemini for research. Stack Overflow for that one obscure error. GitHub Copilot in my editor. Notion for documentation. Slack for team questions. Linear for tickets. Every context switch cost me fifteen minutes of momentum. Every tool required its own authentication, its own quirks, its own mental model. I spent more time managing my productivity stack than being productive. Then I did something that felt reckless: I collapsed my entire development workflow into a single AI workspace. No more tab juggling. No more context loss. No more wondering which tool was best for which task. Three months later, I'm shipping faster, thinking clearer, and actually enjoying the development process again. T…  ( 13 min )

💻 Completed Full Data Analysis Process Using Python (Pandas) 📊 I’m happy to share that I’ve successfully completed all 5 Phases of the Data Analysis workflow step by step: 🧩 Phase 1: Data Understanding 🧹 Phase 2: Data Cleaning ⚙️ Phase 3: Data Preparation 🔍 Phase 4: Data Exploration 📈 Phase 5: Aggregation & Insights This hands-on exercise helped me understand how data cleaning and exploration lead to valuable business insights. Git Hub Link - https://lnkd.in/eyUQrcgu hashtag#DataAnalytics hashtag#Python hashtag#Pandas hashtag#DataCleaning hashtag#DataExploration hashtag#DataScience hashtag#LearningJourney  ( 6 min )

it is amazon service it provided the Domain name service because i can not remember the ip address so we provide the name this name attatched to the ip address ip address used by computer identified the server ipv4 ipv6 Some top level domain In a aws route 32 have advantage generally we have webserver and we connected the loadbalancer in the availbility zone Problem is when the region aries the issue hence we solved the problem help of Route 53 Geolocation Routing policy  ( 6 min )

WHAT IS MANUAL TESTING? THE MOST COMMON MANUAL TESTING TECHNIQUES: 1.Black box Testing: example: To validate the authentication works correctly (Entering login credentials like username and password). 2.White box Testing example: checks the both branches of an "If-else" statement. 3.Grey box Testing example: To test session expiration or anything in shopping cart. 4.Functional Testing: Types of Functional Testing: Smoke Testing: It ensures that critical functionalities work after a new build. Sanity Testing: It Processed on specific issues after minor changes. Regression Testing: It ensures that new changes haven’t broken existing functionality. Integration Testing:It checks interaction between modules and systems. System Testing: It validate the complete sy…  ( 10 min )

This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge ESG Copilot is an autonomous multi-agent AI system that automates ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) compliance for small and medium businesses, secured end-to-end with Auth0 for AI Agents. SMBs face a $10K-$50K cost for ESG reports, struggle with complex regulations across jurisdictions, and lack in-house expertise. Manual compliance is time-consuming and error-prone. An autonomous AI agent system that: 🔍 Researches regulations via real-time web search (Google Search grounding) 📊 Collects ESG data from EPA, web scraping, and AI estimation 🌍 Calculates emissions using Climatiq API (Scope 1, 2, 3) 📄 Generates reports in GRI, SASB, TCFD formats with iterative refinement 💬 Answers questions via permission-aware RAG (Retrieva…  ( 12 min )

Hey everyone! I’m Masayeakh, a Full stack Dev from Bangladesh who’s learning TypeScript to level up my skills. Last week, I started my TypeScript journey — and wow, it’s been an exciting ride so far! From type safety to cleaner code, I can already see why so many developers love it. In this post, I’ll share 5 simple but powerful lessons I learned in my first week of TypeScript. If you’re starting out like me, this might help you avoid confusion and learn faster 🚀 💡 1. TypeScript Catches Errors Before You Run the Code In JavaScript, many bugs show up only when you run your code. let age: number = "25"; // ❌ Type error: Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number' > It’s like having a super strict but helpful teacher who doesn’t let you make silly mistakes. 💬 2. Defining Function…  ( 7 min )

A framework for encoding application security vulnerabilities through Mary Shelley's 1818 masterwork The Frankenstein OWASP Trilogy: Legacy Parts → Leaking Genius → System Catastrophe Original artwork © 2025 Narnaiezzsshaa Truong | Cybersecurity Witwear Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. The OWASP Top 10 was first published in 2003. Yet Shelley's novel anticipates every major category of application security failure—185 years before we had terminology for them. Victor Frankenstein's tragedy isn't just a Gothic horror story. It's a systematic encoding of what happens when creators build powerful systems without responsibility, oversight, or security controls. Every OWASP vulnerability is enacted in the narrative. The creature's suffering and Victor's destruction stem from the sam…  ( 13 min )

Artificial Intelligence continues to redefine the digital world in 2025 — from smarter chatbots to powerful generative tools transforming creative industries. Here are the top highlights this week: 1️⃣ OpenAI’s New GPT-5 Update: 2️⃣ Google’s Gemini Expands to Android Devices: 3️⃣ AI in Content Creation: 4️⃣ Ethical AI Discussions Intensify: 5️⃣ The Future of Work: 📰 Final Thought: AI isn’t slowing down — it’s becoming the creative engine behind every industry. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, content creator, or entrepreneur, staying AI-aware in 2025 is not an option — it’s a necessity.  ( 6 min )

Effortless Vue.js Deployment with Firebase Hosting and GitHub Actions Deploying a web app shouldn’t feel like wrestling a bear. For my financial project management system (PMS) built with Vue.js, I wanted a fast, automated deployment pipeline using Firebase Hosting and GitHub Actions—without the firebase-tools npm package. This approach keeps things lightweight, skips extra dependencies, and gives you full control. Whether you’re deploying a Vue.js app or any static site (React, Angular, Svelte, you name it), this guide will get you a seamless CI/CD setup. Set up automated deployments to Firebase Hosting using GitHub Actions, no firebase-tools required. Manually configure Firebase, create a single GitHub Actions workflow, and use a service account for preview and live deploys. Perfect fo…  ( 8 min )

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Cal State Invites Tech Companies to Revolutionize Learning with AI A Bold Experiment in EdTech The California State University (Cal State) system has embarked on a pioneering initiative, inviting top tech companies to reimagine learning experiences using artificial intelligence (AI). This bold experiment aims to leverage the power of AI to enhance student engagement, improve outcomes, and create more effective learning pathways. In this article, we'll delve into the implications of this project, explore its potential benefits, and discuss the challenges that lie ahead. The Cal State system is seeking to address several pressing issues in education: Personalization: One-size-fits-all approaches often fail to cater to diverse learning styles and needs. Scalability: Tradition…  ( 7 min )

Goodbye Guesswork: Code Generation That Knows What It Doesn't Know Tired of AI-generated code that seems right, only to explode in spectacular fashion at runtime? Imagine if your coding assistant could flag its own blind spots, highlighting areas where the generated code might be shaky. What if the system itself could tell you where it's uncertain? That's the promise of a new approach to code generation: uncertainty-aware models. Instead of spitting out just one "best guess" code snippet, these models output a distribution of possible solutions, along with a measure of confidence for each. Think of it like a weather forecast: instead of saying "it will rain," it tells you "there's an 80% chance of rain, and a 20% chance of sunshine." This uncertainty is incredibly valuable. It lets you,…  ( 7 min )

GitHub Home .env: A Grown-Up's Guide to Application Configuration 🧐 Let me tell you a ghost story. 👻 A few years ago, a new guy on our team made a mistake with a configuration item during an emergency online hotfix. He was supposed to point the database address to the read-only replica of the production environment, but he forgot to update that tiny .env file on the production server. The result? The live service connected to his local development database. 😬 The next hour was a disaster for our entire department. User data was contaminated by test scripts, order data was messed up, and the CEO's call went straight to my cell phone. We spent an entire weekend cleaning up data and appeasing users. And the root cause of all this was a single, tiny text file that someone forgot to modify…  ( 10 min )

Pendahuluan Saat membangun aplikasi mobile dengan React Native, tampilan antarmuka (UI) adalah hal yang sangat penting. memberi gaya (styling) pada setiap komponen agar tampak menarik dan konsisten. Pada materi ini, kita akan membahas: Konsep Styling Components di React Native Konsep Flexbox untuk Pengaturan Layout Membuat Layout Berdasarkan Desain React Native menggunakan sistem styling yang mirip dengan CSS, tetapi ditulis dalam bentuk JavaScript object. .js atau .jsx. Contoh sederhana: import React from "react"; import { View, Text, StyleSheet } from "react-native"; export default function App() { return ( Halo React Native! Styling membuat tampilan lebih menarik …  ( 8 min )

GitHub Home In our toolbox, there are always a few "star" tools. 🛠️ In the realm of real-time web communication, WebSocket is undoubtedly the brightest star. It's powerful, supports bidirectional communication, and has become the "default answer" for almost all real-time needs. So, when a product manager comes to you and says, "Hey, we need a dashboard that updates in real-time!" the first thing that pops into many programmers' minds is: "Okay, let's use WebSockets!" But, wait a minute. ✋ As an old-timer who has been navigating this world for decades, I want to ask: do we always need a "Swiss Army knife" to peel an apple? 🍎 I've seen too many scenarios where a simple feature that only requires unidirectional data push from the server to the client—like site notifications, stock price upd…  ( 9 min )

I originally posted this post on my blog. There's good laziness and bad laziness. One day, the VP of a company I was contracting with called me "lazy." That was a compliment. You know the lazy that finds an easy way to solve a problem. The good lazy way. The "I don't want to think" kind of lazy. And I don't want that type. I've been experimenting with AI for my coding. When I sit down to code, I open Copilot on a browser to see what I can offload. Recently, I've been migrating a legacy Visual Basic app and I've used Copilot to code faster by helping me with boring tasks. The other day, I was stuck on a stupid problem: find a value in a dictionary from a list of possible keys. Maybe I needed some rest...or coffee, but I couldn't think of a LINQ query for that. I was so tempted to wake up the genie in the bottle for that. It felt like the easy way out. It's so tempting to go directly to the AI and outsource our thinking, even for simple tasks. It's fast and too convenient. Just a paragraph or two, wait for one or two seconds, and Boom! An answer. Just the other day, I found a coder desperate because he couldn't code without AI anymore. If we're not careful enough, any one of us could become that coder. (From my quick experiment, it seems I was going in the same direction.) And that's the real problem. AI is faster at generating code than we are. No doubt! But being a good coder isn't about typing fast. It's about teamwork, clear communication, and other skills that don't show up in autocomplete. I've packed those lessons into my book: Street-Smart Coding: 30 Ways to Get Better at Coding. It's the roadmap I wish I had when I was starting out. Get your copy of Street-Smart Coding here  ( 7 min )

The Problem with "Managed" IT The work isn't failing because teams stopped working — it's failing because work stops moving. Despite all the dashboards and automations, IT still runs on a "react and resolve" model. When something breaks, you fix it. When something escalates, you reroute it. When a workflow slows, you optimize it manually. But this approach doesn't scale. It adds friction, fatigue, and dependency on human oversight. The truth is, automation isn't the finish line anymore. It's the starting point. What enterprises need now is autonomy — systems that sense, decide, and act intelligently without waiting for approval loops. This is exactly what Agentic AI delivers. From Automation to Autonomy Automation runs rules. In ITSM, that means your platform no longer just records inciden…  ( 10 min )

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As engineers, we’re used to relying on cron jobs. But when you move to container-based or managed platforms like Azure App Service, that assumption breaks. I had a production app hosted on Azure App Service that performs periodic data scraping and stores results in a database. delete old records every 24 hours. Locally, everything worked perfectly. No errors. No logs. Nothing. After some debugging and reading through Microsoft docs, I realized what was happening under the hood. Azure App Service is not a full-time virtual machine. web requests, not background processes. When your app: doesn’t receive traffic for a while, or gets restarted for maintenance/scaling, the process sleeps or restarts, killing any background loops or cron-like code inside the container. So my cleanup logic, which …  ( 7 min )

🌱 How It Started A few days ago, I built my first project during my React course — a simple packing list app called Far Away. While it was a good learning experience, I wanted to create something more useful in daily life — something people could actually use every week. Listo started. 🛒 Listo is a grocery list app that helps users organize shopping items with quantities and units. It’s a simple concept — but I’m focusing on making it clean, fast, and easy to use. ⚛️ React.js — for the UI and interactivity 💻 JavaScript (ES6) — for all logic 🎨 CSS (modern design) — I’m experimenting with layout, colors, and clean typography 🧩 State Management — using React useState() 🚧 Current Progress ✅ Item input field working Add localStorage to save the list between sessions Add dark mode Deploy the app online Maybe add categories (like fruits, vegetables, dairy, etc.) I’m not just recreating a course project — I’m transforming it into something original. how to turn ideas into real products. “Every small project is a chance to learn something big.” 🌱 I’ll share updates here as I keep building Listo — my modern grocery list app. If you’ve built something similar or have feature ideas, I’d love to hear from you!  ( 7 min )

Read the original article：Listing methods for HarmonyOS Apps Context Listing methods for HarmonyOS apps Developers need to decide how to distribute and list their HarmonyOS applications, whether for testing, private use, or official public release. HarmonyOS offers multiple distribution channels depending on the app’s purpose and audience. Description HarmonyOS supports different distribution methods to suit various scenarios: Official Listing & Distribution Methods: Available on the App Store: Public release, searchable, and discoverable by users. Not for Public Release: App is uploaded but hidden from public search. In-house Application Distribution: For special business scenarios; apps are distributed internally and not available publicly. Test Distribution Methods: Internal Testing: Limited to internal teams for functional and stability testing. Invite to Test: Specific users are invited to try the app. Public Beta: Broader testing with external users to gather feedback before official release. Solution / Approach How to choose the distribution method: Testing: Pick Internal Testing, Invite to Test, or Public Beta based on how widely you want to test your app. Official Release: Prefer releasing on the App Store for broad visibility. Choose Not for Public Release if you want the app hidden but still distributed. For special business scenarios, apply for In-house Application Distribution (subject to approval). In-house Application Distribution – Release Process If you decide on In-house distribution:Apply for the in-house distribution qualification with Huawei. Your app will be reviewed for eligibility. Once approved, you can distribute the app internally to designated devices or users without public listing. Key Takeaways HarmonyOS supports multiple release modes: public, private, and in-house. Choose test distribution based on the desired test scope. In-house distribution is for special scenarios and requires approval. Written by Fatih Turan Gundogdu  ( 6 min )

How a Simple Activation Trick Supercharges AI and Robots Ever wondered why a tiny tweak can make a giant AI think faster? Scientists have discovered a clever method called Entropy Regularizing Activation (ERA) that nudges AI models to stay “curious” enough without getting lost. With this trick, a language model that solves math problems jumped 37% higher on a tough benchmark, a robot learning to walk became 30% more graceful, and a photo‑recognition system saw its accuracy edge up by almost 1%. The magic shows that sometimes, the right constraint can unleash big gains. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Entropy Regularizing Activation: Boosting Continuous Control, Large LanguageModels, and Image Classification with Activation as Entropy Constraints 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 8 min )

The Booth Vol.23 | Trap Draw, Ep 365 Cody and Neil kick things off by owning up to their latest goofs—then prod you to confess your own. They chat about Neil’s big move to the suburbs (and the fierce hardware‐store loyalties that come with it), share what shows and movies are keeping them glued to the screen, and dig into the chaos of content feedback on social media. Plus, get the scoop on Neil’s upcoming panel at Columbia and more behind-the-scenes banter. They also rally support for the Evans Scholars Foundation and give shout-outs to sponsors ServPro, Rhoback, and Stone Creek Coffee. Don’t forget to subscribe to their newsletter and podcast channel, or join The Nest community for low-ad golf talk, exclusive perks, and that annual member gift. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The CORE Workflow in a Nutshell Jeff Su distilled nine years of teaching into a simple, four-step system he rolled out to 6,642 Googlers: Capture everything the moment it hits you, Organize it with minimal fuss, Review on a set schedule, and Engage by time-blocking focused work sessions. It plugs into any tool you already use and promises to become second nature in just two weeks—no more mental juggling or willpower gymnastics. Want to geek out further? Jeff’s got blog posts, newsletter prompts, Notion templates, and even a full Workspace Academy course to help you build a productivity powerhouse. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

An optimized affiliate marketing bio for Instagram is more than a few catchy lines; it’s your digital handshake. For graduates, freshers, and professionals seeking change, Instagram offers a powerful platform to promote affiliate deals, build a personal brand, and earn while you sleep. With the right bio, your profile becomes a conversion engine, turning casual scrollers into loyal followers and buyers. Why Your Instagram Bio Matters in Affiliate Marketing Instagram bios are limited to 150 characters, yet they carry immense weight. According to Taplink, a well-crafted bio can significantly increase click-through rates and engagement. It’s the first thing visitors notice, and it sets the tone for your content, credibility, and value proposition. For affiliate marketers, the bio must commu…  ( 8 min )

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Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less has CinemaSins swinging back at Tim Burton’s re-release with rapid-fire “sins” that tally every eccentric choice—while still giving props to the movie’s spooky charm. Hungry for more? Head to cinemasins.com or binge their YouTube network (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), then cast your vote in their sinful poll. Feeling generous? Support the team on patreon.com/cinemasins or join the conversation on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and beyond. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Introduction Building a KYC (Know Your Customer) authentication system seemed straightforward—until production hit. What started as a simple bug fix turned into a three-day journey through database schemas, system libraries, network configurations, and infrastructure overhaul. This is the practical guide I wish I had before diving into the multi-layer debugging nightmare. Our tests were failing, but not for the reasons you'd expect. The issues were stacked like a house of cards: Problem Symptom Root Cause Database errors Table 'face_similarities' doesn't exist Migration script never ran Computer vision crashes libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file Missing system dependencies GPU processing failure ONNX Runtime initialization failed Incorrect environment variables # Dat…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins takes a hilariously ruthless 24-minute swing at Final Destination: Bloodlines, pointing out every ridiculous near-death gag and plot quirk that makes the franchise gloriously absurd. It’s all nonsense, but damn if it isn’t entertaining nonsense. Along the way they drop a BetterHelp sponsor plug (therapy, anyone?), shout out their main site, YouTube channels, Discord/Reddit communities, a sinful viewer poll, and their Patreon. Shout-outs to writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel, plus all their social links so you can keep the sins coming. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home Every programmer has had that moment. You join a new project, or you open up a project you wrote yourself six months ago, and then you feel it—that familiar, suffocating chaos. 🌪️ The utils folder is stuffed with hundreds of disorganized functions, a massive services.js file mixes database queries, business logic, and third-party API calls, and route definitions are scattered throughout the codebase. You want to add a small feature, but you don't know where to put the code. You want to fix a bug, but you have to trace a variable's journey through a tangled mess of "spaghetti code." 🍝 We call this phenomenon "software entropy," or more colloquially, "project rot." How does that clean, elegant, and hopeful little project at the beginning turn, step by step, into a "big ball of …  ( 10 min )

TL;DR: A powerful, zero-dependency filtering library that brings MongoDB-style operators, SQL wildcards, and intelligent autocomplete to TypeScript arrays. Think of it as Array.filter() on steroids! 💪 We've all been there - writing complex array filtering logic that becomes a nested mess of conditions: const results = products.filter(p => p.price >= 100 && p.price = 4.5 && p.name.toLowerCase().includes('laptop') ); This works, but it's: ❌ Hard to read and maintain ❌ Prone to errors ❌ Not reusable ❌ Difficult to compose dynamically Enter @mcabreradev/filter - a library that lets you write expressive, declarative filters: import { filter } from '@mcabreradev/filter'; const res…  ( 10 min )

2125. Number of Laser Beams in a Bank Difficulty: Medium Topics: Array, Math, String, Matrix, Weekly Contest 274 Anti-theft security devices are activated inside a bank. You are given a 0-indexed binary string array bank representing the floor plan of the bank, which is an m x n 2D matrix. bank[i] represents the iᵗʰ row, consisting of '0's and '1's. '0' means the cell is empty, while '1' means the cell has a security device. There is one laser beam between any two security devices if both conditions are met: The two devices are located on two different rows: r₁ and r₂, where r₁ < r₂. For each row i where r₁ < i < r₂, there are no security devices in the iᵗʰ row. Laser beams are independent, i.e., one beam does not interfere nor join with another. Return the total number of laser beams in t…  ( 37 min )

Picture this: Moscow, November 2017. The air is crisp, the coffee is strong, and the room buzzes with the energy of hundreds of security enthusiasts wearing everything from corporate polos to hacker hoodies. This was Zero Nights - not just another security conference, but something closer to a family reunion for the Russian infosec community. Back in my university days (circa 2009-2010), I had cut my teeth on CTF competitions with my team Cr@zY Geek$ . Those late nights solving challenges created bonds that lasted years. Now, as a established security specialist and journalist for "Hacker" magazine, I was returning to this playground with both my notebook and my curiosity ready for action. Little did I know I'd soon be part of a team that would crack an analog safe using nothing but wits …  ( 12 min )

🚨 DEADLINE ALERT! 🚨 November 1, 2025 is just around the corner! As you may have seen it on the cover photo above which is about the latest Google Play’s 16 KB page size requirement that is affecting the app. Whereby starting November 1, 2025, all the new app submission must support the new 16 KB page size requirement and must support the target SDK 35 / API 35 or also known as Android 15 and above (this is extended deadline). Hence, this raised a question on what should a Flutter developer needs to do to ensure the future release is supporting 16 KB page size, and also how we can verify the app is actually supporting 16 KB page size after performing the upgrade (including the package dependencies upgrade) ? To shed some lights, I recently managed to upgrade one of my own personal Flut…  ( 8 min )

GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

Congratulations! You've adopted TypeScript. Now you're writing JavaScript with commitment issues. Let me paint you a picture: your team had The Meeting. Someone said " type safety " while gesturing vaguely at a stack trace. Someone else mentioned " developer experience " after their third coffee. Everyone nodded like they understood what that meant. You migrated your codebase, spent two days fixing config files, added typescript to your dependencies, and updated your LinkedIn. Then you wrote this masterpiece: const data: any = await fetchUserData(); Chef's kiss. Beautiful. You've taken a language designed to catch bugs at compile time and told it "nah, surprise me at runtime." It's like buying a seatbelt and wearing it as a scarf. TypeScript's whole thing is preventing undefined is n…  ( 14 min )

This time that I need to read the code from the website of Repomix and choose one of the features that I want to implement in my CLI tool. --token-count-tree [threshold]. It shows file tree with token counts with an optional threshold to display only files with greater and equals to N token (i.e., --token-count-tree 30). The first time that I just checked the code on GitHub, but I realized I could not easily to check and dependencies on GitHub, so I used git grep "buildTokenCountTree" to find the code blocks. 1. `cliRun.ts` to set up the optional features 2. `configSchema.ts` is for separate functions as different group and call it when needed. 3. `defaultAction.ts` to build CLI configurations and to assign to the command-line options if the user used. 4. defaultAction will call the file …  ( 7 min )

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GitHub Home As developers, we all cherish that "flow state." When you're fully focused, code flows from your fingertips, and with every save, the service in the terminal automatically restarts. A quick browser refresh, and your new changes are instantly visible. This immediate feedback loop is one of the most delightful experiences in modern web development. ✨ It makes us feel like we have superpowers, able to create at the speed of thought. In the Node.js world, we have nodemon. In the Rust world, we have cargo-watch. We usually call these tools "Hot-Reload." They are invaluable treasures during the development phase, significantly boosting our productivity. 🏃💨 But, as an old-timer, I have to throw some cold water on you today. 🥶 I want to tell you a dangerous truth: your development s…  ( 9 min )

Deno developers face a logging dilemma. Console logging is simple but limited. Traditional Node.js libraries like Winston or Pino aren't built for Deno's environment. LogLayer solves this by providing a unified logging layer designed for Deno, offering flexibility to adapt your logging infrastructure as your application grows without changing your code. The framework provides a consistent, fluent API for specifying log messages, metadata, and errors, regardless of which underlying transport you're using. This means you can start with simple console logging during development, then seamlessly transition to more sophisticated logging solutions as your application grows, all without changing your logging code. Here's a quick example of LogLayer's expressive API in action: log.withContext({ us…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR AI hallucinations - plausible but false outputs from language models - remain a critical challenge in 2025. This article explores why hallucinations persist, their impact on reliability, and how organizations can mitigate them using robust evaluation, observability, and prompt management practices. Drawing on recent research and industry best practices, we highlight actionable strategies, technical insights, and essential resources for reducing hallucinations and ensuring reliable AI deployment. Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents have become foundational to modern enterprise applications, powering everything from automated customer support to advanced analytics. As organizations scale their use of AI, the reliability of these systems has moved from a technical concern to a …  ( 10 min )

CinemaSins has unleashed “Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less,” a playful roast of Tim Burton’s reanimated pup flick as it hits theaters again. Expect their signature rapid-fire nitpicks, tongue-in-cheek commentary, and plenty of sly references—all delivered in under 15 minutes. If you can’t get enough of their “sins,” they’ve got you covered with extra videos on YouTube (including TVSins and Commercial Sins), a fun poll to share your feedback, and a Patreon to support the team. Plus, the writers (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) are hanging out on Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit and beyond for your cinematic sin cravings. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predator – Caravan of Garbage kicks off a four-week deep dive into the first four Predator films, starting with Schwarzenegger’s 1987 original. They celebrate it as the ultimate 80s action-sci-fi mashup—perfect direction, writing, cast and creature design plus muscles, mud, lasers, explosions and invisibility done right. Along the way they drop links to bonus audio, their Weekly Planet podcast, early access at bigsandwich.co, social handles, Patreon and merch for anyone craving extra goodies or wanting to support the show. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home I still remember the bug that kept me up all night. A payment callback endpoint, when handling a rare, exceptional status code from a third-party payment gateway, had a .catch() that was accidentally omitted from a Promise chain. The result? No logs, no alerts, and the service itself didn't crash. It just "silently" failed. That user's order status was forever stuck on "processing," and we were completely unaware. It wasn't until a week later during a reconciliation that we discovered hundreds of these "silent orders," resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in losses. 💸 The lesson was painful. It made me realize that in software engineering, we probably spend less than 10% of our time on the happy path. The other 90% of the complexity comes from how to handle all sorts of e…  ( 9 min )

AI agents can automate business processes. But most demos ignore a critical question: What happens when something goes wrong mid-workflow? Consider a customer refund process: Process refund via payment gateway → succeeds Send confirmation email → fails Your customer now has money refunded but no notification. Your support team has no record of what happened. Your compliance team can't audit the decision. This is the production reality that demos skip over. Today I'm showing you how to build a customer refund agent that handles these failure modes correctly using AgentHelm an open-source framework I built for production-ready agent orchestration. A toy demo refund agent calls a few tools and returns a result. A production refund agent needs: Transactional safety: If step 3 fails, steps 1 an…  ( 13 min )

Você já parou pra pensar quantas vezes usa proporção no seu código sem perceber? Pois é, eu também não ligava muito até começar a trabalhar com APIs de pagamento e perceber que tinha um padrão matemático se repetindo. Semana passada tava construindo um sistema de cobrança por uso. O cliente pagava X reais por Y requisições. Simples, né? Mas aí veio a pergunta: quanto ele vai pagar fazendo Z requisições? Deixa eu te mostrar situações reais onde essa matemática salva o dia. O conceito é direto: você mantém uma relação entre dois valores e aplica essa mesma relação em outro contexto. Nem sempre vale a pena reinventar a roda. Às vezes você precisa validar um cálculo rápido ou está fazendo um orçamento pro cliente. Aí uma regra de 3 online resolve em segundos. Isso aqui confunde no começo, mas…  ( 9 min )

Parenting has always been a journey of constant adaptation, but for families in 2025, the landscape feels exceptionally fluid. The rapid pace of technology, evolving social norms, and the pressure of a hyper connected world mean that yesterday’s rulebook just won't cut it. Today’s challenge isn't about simply teaching right from wrong; it's about helping a child build an internal compass in a world of endless, often overwhelming, external signals. This era demands a thoughtful, intentional approach from parents cone that balances the immense benefits of a digital age with the fundamental human need for connection, resilience, and quiet time. Unquestionably, the most pervasive factor shaping modern family life is technology. Children today grow up surrounded by tablets, smartphones, and soc…  ( 8 min )

This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge I have built a agent that provides answer for confidential information to the right person. Before starting with the implementation, lets start with the problem I want to solve with this solution. Bob works at IT team at EMarket, an online e-commerce company . The company wants to provide chat services to their employee to boost productivity. But the team wants to first launch the service to LIMIED person as a prototype and gather information as an usability testing. Therefore, Bob needs to restrict the usage of the chat service to certain users. The How-Might-We question denoted from the POV might be like, How might we authenticate the user ? How might we restrict users to access the relative contents ? To tackle the problem, I…  ( 7 min )

GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

GitHub Home Hyperlane is a lightweight, high-performance, cross-platform Rust HTTP server framework built on Tokio async runtime. Performance: 324,323 QPS (Keep-Alive on), 51,031 QPS (Keep-Alive off) | Unified API: HTTP, WebSocket, SSE share same interface | Flexible Routing: Static, dynamic, regex routes | Powerful Middleware: Request/response middleware, panic hooks | Real-time: Native WebSocket and SSE support | Cross-platform: Unified experience on Windows, Linux, macOS Quick start: git clone https://github.com/hyperlane-dev/hyperlane-quick-start.git As a backend developer with 10 years of experience, I've seen languages and frameworks rise and fall like empires. I've ridden the waves of hype and seen them crash on the shores of reality. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that…  ( 8 min )

GitHub Home "We should write more tests." In every technical meeting, this sentence is repeated like a sacred mantra. Everyone nods in agreement, everyone knows this is the "right" thing to do. But back at their desks, the expression on many faces turns to one of pain. 😫 Why? Because in many projects, writing tests is a chore. The tests run as slow as a turtle; a full test suite takes long enough for you to brew three cups of coffee. ☕️ The test code itself is more complex and harder to understand than the business logic. And the deadliest part: these tests are incredibly "brittle." You change a CSS class name in the frontend, or add a field to a JSON response, and hundreds of tests mysteriously fail. 💔 If you can relate to these scenarios, then as an old-timer, I want to let you in on a…  ( 10 min )

The technology news cycle often focuses on shiny new consumer gadgets, but the developments on October 26th, 2025, highlighted something far more foundational: the massive, necessary infrastructure required to power the current boom in Artificial Intelligence. From international corporate partnerships to concerns about data center power grids and the changing nature of the entry-level tech job market, the underlying themes of the day revolved around building the world that AI demands. A significant headline involved the deepening collaboration between a global technology leader and a major industrial player. Reliance and Meta announced a new joint venture focused on building enterprise-level AI products in India. The initial investment is substantial, with Reliance taking a majority stake.…  ( 11 min )

This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge VaultMind is an AI-powered calendar assistant that transforms how you manage your schedule. Instead of clicking through calendar interfaces, just tell VaultMind what you need: 💬 "Am I free tomorrow afternoon?" - Instant availability checks 📅 "Schedule a team standup next Monday at 2pm" - Smart event creation with conflict detection 🌍 "What time is 3pm Tokyo in San Francisco?" - Automatic timezone conversion across 19 global zones ⚠️ "Find me 30 minutes this week" - Intelligent scheduling with conflict warnings The Problem It Solves Modern professionals waste 2+ hours per week on calendar management: Manual timezone calculations for distributed teams Checking availability across multiple calendars Avoiding…  ( 9 min )

Starting today, Malaysians can now utilise the Sleep Apnea feature on the Galaxy Watch series. The feature can be accessed through the Samsung Health Monitor App. The introduction of the feature in the country follows the receipt of the Medical device Registration Certificate from the Medical Device Authority (MDA). This certificate showcases that Samsung meets […] The post Samsung Introduces Sleep Apnea Detection To Galaxy Watch Series In Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

The AKASO Keychain 2 is one of the latest contenders in the action camera market, offering the consumers what is essentially a “barebones” alternative. What Am I Looking At? So, the Keychain 2 presents itself with rectangular body, rather than a more uniformed square design that its rival, GoPro, uses. To go through the specifications […] The post Akaso Keychain 2 Lightning Review: Pocket-Sized 4K GoPro Alternative appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 38 min )

MG Motor Malaysia has announced revised pricing for all three variants of the MGS5 EV, effective immediately. The COM variant is now priced at RM107,900, the COM Long Range at RM117,900, and the LUX Long Range at RM127,900. This revised pricing reflects a price reduction of RM8,000 across all variants. According to the automaker, the […] The post MG Announces Revised Pricing For MGS5 EV; Now Starts From RM107,900 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Porsche recently unveiled performance specifications of the electric version version of the Cayenne SUV, following the reveal of the model’s interior last month. The car was first showcased at the legendary Shelsley Walsh hill climb in England a few months back. The Cayenne EV is built on Porsche’s in-house developed Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture, […] The post Porsche Updates Specifications Of The All-Electric Cayenne appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Back in September, HONOR officially unveiled its newest midrange smartphone on our shores, the X9d. Starting earlier this month, those interested in buying the device can purchase it through the brand’s physical and online stores, as well as authorised retailers. Now, the company has announced that the 512GB model is available through selected telcos. Starting […] The post HONOR X9d 5G Now Available Via Selected Telco Plans appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Rumour has it that AMD is preparing to launch a total of four new 3D V-Cache Ryzen processors. The most interesting point of this story is that a mid-range Ryzen 5 7500X3D is likely to be a possible SKU. The case of the 7500X3D comes by way of popular leakster momomo_us on X, although to […] The post AMD Could Be Gearing Up To Launch A Ryzen 5 7500X3D CPU appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Google is expanding the capabilities of Canvas, the interactive workspace that is found within the Gemini chatbot app. Starting today, users can ask the AI to generate a slideshow presentation for them. Gemini’s Canvas can now generate presentation slides with just a prompt. However, users can also upload files like documents, spreadsheets, and research papers […] The post You Can Now Generate Presentations With Google Gemini appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

Not long after announcing the Phantom White collection of peripherals, Razer already has another collection lined up. This time it’s called Esports Green, but really it’s just the brand’s own iconic green. Or more specifically, the 802C green on the Pantone colour code. Just about all of them have a RM30 premium on top of […] The post Razer Announces Esports Green Collection; Includes Unreleased Raiju V3 Pro appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Earlier in the month, Strava filed a lawsuit against its longstanding partner Garmin over a patent infringement. After only 21 days, the company has unexpectedly withdrawn its lawsuit. To bring you up to speed, Strava is accusing Garmin of infringing on two patented features. The first of these features is the segments, which allow athletes […] The post Strava Drops Garmin Lawsuit After Only 21 Days appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

The Road Transport Department (JPJ) is offering motorists a 50% discount to settle outstanding summonses over a two-month period from 1 November to 30 December 2025. The initiative aims to give vehicle owners a final opportunity to clear their dues before a new payment structure takes effect next year. JPJ director-general Datuk Aedy Fadly Ramli […] The post JPJ Offering 50% Discount On Outstanding Summonses Until 30 December 2025 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Apple Maps users may start seeing ads in the app in the future. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to introduce ads to its mapping service as soon as next year. This change is part of the brand’s greater push for more advertising in iOS. Of course, this move did not […] The post Apple Might Start Introducing Ads To Apple Maps Next Year appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Proton has officially unveiled the all-new Saga MC3 at the ongoing 47th ASEAN Summit, a reveal that quickly caught public attention through social media posts. From the shared images, the sedan appears wrapped in a batik-inspired camouflage, though its overall design details remain clearly visible. In terms of styling, the Saga MC3 features a completely […] The post Proton Unveils New Saga MC3 At 47th ASEAN Summit appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Apple has launched the latest iPad Pro refresh with the M5 chip earlier in the month. Which seems to be as good a time as any for details of the next refresh to appear online. The newest claim is that, when the M6 version of the tablet rolls around, it will feature vapour chamber cooling. […] The post iPad Pro With M6 Chip May Feature Vapour Chamber Cooling appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Apparently, ByteDance is working on its own international game distribution platform. Dubbed GameTop, the TikTok owner’s upcoming offering is set to compete against existing marketplaces like Epic Games and Steam. Much like the latter, the new platform will focus on aspects like user-created content, social features, as well as tools for developers. According to Chinese […] The post TikTok Parent Company ByteDance Reportedly Developing Steam Rival appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) yesterday with the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), represented by its wholly owned subsidiary China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co Ltd (CET). In a statement, the company said the collaboration will enhance Malaysia’s grid technology and contribute to the broader ASEAN goal […] The post TNB Signs MOU With China’s SGCC To Advance Malaysia’s Power Grid Modernisation appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

US President Trump and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim signed a new Agreement on Reciprocal Trade. The agreement was signed on the sidelines, during the 47th ASEAN Summit. As per the new deal, the US will maintain the tariff rate on Malaysia, which currently sits at 19%, with the new deal set to exempt […] The post Malaysia And US Sign New Reciprocal Trade For Semiconductors At ASEAN Summit 2025 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

ClearBank’s partnership with Circle aims to bring faster, lower-cost cross-border payments to Europe using USDC and EURC.  ( 30 min )

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 27.  ( 33 min )

The Madras High Court granted interim protection to a WazirX user, blocking the exchange from redistributing her XRP as part of its Singapore-led restructuring.  ( 29 min )

Mt. Gox has extended the creditor repayment deadline by a year.  ( 27 min )

While the filing doesn’t confirm a token launch, it shows Ant Group laying legal groundwork to merge its Alipay ecosystem with regulated Web3 and stablecoin infrastructure.  ( 28 min )

ZEC's price has surged by 380% this month.  ( 30 min )

With the yen freely convertible and backed by Japan’s deep government bond market, JPYC’s launch stands apart from the region’s onshore-only experiments in Korea, Taiwan, and beyond.  ( 31 min )

DOGE outperforms broader crypto markets as volume climbs nearly 10% above weekly averages, signaling early accumulation within breakout structure.  ( 31 min )

XRP surged 3% to $2.68 during Sunday’s session, breaking above the critical resistance level at $2.63 on a dramatic volume spike — one of the largest of the month.  ( 29 min )

BTC looks north as Fed rate cut looms. But one key resistance is yet to be cleared.  ( 28 min )

The Kobeissi Letter reported bank cash at the Federal Reserve fell to about $2.93 trillion; Adam Livingston says that level signals a shift that would favor bitcoin.  ( 32 min )

On-chain data shows roughly 62,000 BTC have moved out of long-term storage since mid-October, softening one of this cycle’s strongest tailwinds. But steady whale accumulation and a moderate short-side cleanup helped prices stabilize near $114K.  ( 31 min )

Bitcoin cleared $112,000 on heavy volume and hovered near $114,500 late Sunday (UTC), while CoinGlass showed $319 million of short positions liquidated over 24 hours.  ( 33 min )

DeepSeek-OCR: When a Picture Is Actually Worth 10 Fewer Tokens Allen Elzayn ・ Oct 26 #ocr #ai #deepseek #deeplearning  ( 5 min )

Lists and tuples are similar but have some differences, e.g. lists are mutable, while tuples are immutable. Aliasing and Cloning can be carried out with list. I was unable to study on October 25th. *Day 67 [October 26, 2025] I need to buckle down, as I'm still lagging on day day 3 & 4 goals, "Day 3-4: Control structures (if-else, loops)", as well as day 5 (and 6) goals, "Day 5-6: Functions and modules", and Day 7 target (exercises) (Meta AI, personal communication, August 8, 2025). If I haven't covered this, I can't make progress on day 8 - 66 goals. Goals: As extracted from the 'Python for Software Development' textbook by Halvorsen (n.d.): Plotting in Python ✅ Subplots✅ Exercises✅ If ... Else Arrays For Loops Nested For Loops While Loops Exercises Creating Functions in Python - Introd…  ( 8 min )

Minds – Similar to Facebook but decentralized, privacy-focused, and rewards users with crypto. MeWe – Focuses on privacy (no ads, no tracking). Feels like early Facebook. Diaspora – Open-source and decentralized; you can host your own server (“pod”). Vero – No ads, no algorithms; good for creators and genuine connections. WT.Social – Created by Wikipedia’s co-founderCreated by Wikipedia’s co-founder; emphasizes truth and meaningful discussion.  ( 6 min )

As a best-selling author, I invite you to explore my books on Amazon. Don't forget to follow me on Medium and show your support. Thank you! Your support means the world! In concurrent programming, managing multiple threads accessing shared data presents significant challenges. Traditional locking mechanisms often introduce bottlenecks, reducing system throughput and increasing latency. I have spent years exploring alternatives that minimize contention while ensuring data integrity. Lock-free data structures offer a compelling solution by relying on atomic operations rather than mutexes. This approach can dramatically improve performance in highly concurrent environments, especially in Go, where goroutines multiply rapidly. My journey into lock-free programming began with simple counters a…  ( 12 min )

TL;DR Ship smaller slices so users feel the value sooner and you can learn before over-investing. Evaluate each cut by whether it delivers standalone value and avoids confusing users. Design the slices, refine them during implementation, and iterate quickly with real feedback. This article lays out why delivering in small increments matters, how to decide where to draw the boundaries, and what execution pattern keeps those releases delivering value. Bundling everything into one launch keeps even finished functionality sitting on the shelf, pushing back the moment value reaches your users. Shipping a partial slice lets you invite them to try it without delay. Letting people touch the product earlier surfaces real reactions right away, so the team can plan its next move with evidence. It …  ( 8 min )

Já parou para pensar quantas vezes você usou uma simples string para representar um email, CPF ou telefone no seu código? 🤔 Se a resposta foi "várias vezes" (e provavelmente foi), você pode estar caindo numa armadilha muito comum: a obsessão por tipos primitivos! Essa é uma das regras mais importantes do Object Calisthenics que pode transformar completamente a qualidade do seu código. Object Calisthenics é como uma "academia para o seu código"! 💪 Criado por Jeff Bay, é um conjunto de 9 regras que funcionam como exercícios para tornar seu código mais orientado a objetos e próximo dos princípios SOLID. As 9 regras são: Apenas um nível de indentação por método Não use a palavra-chave ELSE Encapsule todos os tipos primitivos e Strings ⭐ (nosso foco hoje!) Coleções como objetos de primeira cl…  ( 9 min )

If you’re a Nigerian developer or business owner looking for reliable hosting and domain registration, here are the top providers to consider this year 👇 telaHosting – Fast NVMe servers, free domain on some plans, and great local support. DomainKing NG – Affordable hosting and domain bundles for small businesses and devs. QServers – Veteran Nigerian host with solid uptime and data centers in Lagos. Truehost Cloud – Budget-friendly plans ideal for freelancers and web agencies. AfeesHost – Low-cost hosting with free domain offers and good customer support. WhoGoHost (GO54) – One of Nigeria’s oldest and most popular hosting providers. HostNowNow – Scalable shared and reseller hosting with competitive prices. SmartWeb Nigeria – Known for reliable uptime and support for .ng and .com.ng domains. HostAfrica – Offers Nigerian-based servers and high performance for growing businesses. Web4Africa – Trusted regional provider offering both local and international hosting options.  ( 6 min )

problem statement Containers - these containers have their own environment with the version specified. these containers can be shared when he shares the image. these are lightweight, sharable and have their own env. Docker Setup Docker Daemon - this is the brain of docker, creating, pulling images. docker run -it ubuntu this is a normal CLI in windows it says start a ubuntu container i.e. an container with ubuntu as OS. this checks for image of ubuntu locally in your machine, if not downloads it from the docker hub , and you get an image of ubuntu. now u have a ubuntu container running in docker, u can use it. after creation of the docker container, the docker(daemon ) uses your host kernel, and not full OS and creates a container, now what ever changes you make in the container is only…  ( 9 min )

The mobile app industry is booming—but so is the competition. Every day, hundreds of new apps hit the market, each fighting for the same thing: user attention. With over 5 million apps available across stores, standing out requires more than a great product. It demands a strategic and scalable mobile app marketing plan. In 2025, user acquisition is no longer about luck or massive ad budgets—it’s about precision, creativity, and adaptability. Whether you’re an indie developer or part of a growth team, here’s how to build a sustainable app marketing strategy that actually scales. 1. Start With the Foundation: Knowing Your Audience Before you spend a single dollar on advertising, define who you’re marketing to. A deep understanding of your audience allows you to craft relevant messaging and c…  ( 8 min )

The task is to implement an insertion sort which sorts an array of integers in ascending order, done in place. The boilerplate code: function insertionSort(arr) { // your code here } The insertion array works by assuming the first element is already sorted. Starting from index 1, store the value as key let key = arr[i] let j = i - 1 Compare it to the elements before it, shift all elements bigger than it to the right by one position and insert the key in the correct position while(j >= 0 && arr[j] > key) { arr[j + 1] = arr[j]; j--; } arr[j + 1] = key The operation is repeated until the array is sorted. The final code is: function insertionSort(arr) { // your code here for(let i = 0; i = 0 && arr[j] > key) { arr[j + 1] = arr[j]; j--; } arr[j + 1] = key; } }  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge AgentFlow is a comprehensive AI agent platform that enables users to create, manage, and deploy autonomous AI agents that can interact with their connected services (Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, etc.) on their behalf. The platform solves the critical problem of secure credential management for AI agents while providing a beautiful, intuitive interface for agent creation and monitoring. Key Features: 🤖 Multi-Template Agent Builder Pre-configured templates (Email Assistant, Calendar Manager, Social Media Manager) Custom agent creation with flexible service selection Visual workflow configuration 🔐 Secure OAuth Integration Auth0-powered authentication for users Token Vault for secure credential storage Service-specific permission …  ( 9 min )

Hello DEV Community! I've just released a minimal, zero-dependency NPM package called lite-schema-check and I think it directly addresses a common pattern in the JavaScript ecosystem. We all know the moment: we need to check if a simple object—a configuration file, an options parameter, or a JSON payload—has the right keys and types. The common choices are either writing verbose, custom type checks or pulling in a huge dependency like Zod or Joi. lite-schema-check is the ultimate minimalist solution, built for Node.js microservices and lightweight libraries where every kilobyte counts. What is it and Why is it "Lite"? This utility exports a single, pure function: validate(object, schema). It performs the minimum viable validation: it only checks for key presence and primitive type matching…  ( 7 min )

How to Integrate MTN Mobile Money in PHP - Complete Guide Mobile Money is the dominant payment method in Africa, with MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) leading the market. If you're building a PHP application that needs to accept payments or send money in Africa, integrating MTN MoMo is essential. In this guide, I'll show you how to integrate MTN Mobile Money using a modern PHP library that makes it simple and type-safe. By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to: Accept payments from customers (Collection) Send money to users (Disbursement) Check transaction status Handle callbacks Test everything in sandbox mode First, install the library via Composer: composer require lepresk/momo-api Requirements: PHP 7.4+ or PHP 8.x Let's start with the most common use case - accepting a payment from a c…  ( 9 min )

What does he mean by AI-powered URL Shortener? Hey Guys, I'm Launching Shrinkify today and figured this community i've been apart of for a longtime would appreciate the honest behind-the-scenes. I was paying $29/mo to Bitly. For what? A database entry and a 301 redirect. Maybe some basic charts if I was lucky. The idea wondered in my head for a while, that shortening urls don't need to be that expensive and most of the current solutions only shorten links, people still left with many questions unanswered. I wanted something that could fill in the blanks to the questions I had and many others do about how their links are actually performing? what they could be doing differently? and I wanted an solution that was more generous but I couldn't find one so... I built my own. Instead of just ano…  ( 7 min )

Hi everybody, it's me again: the engineer behind the popular 'Free Developer Growth Call'. After speaking with 20+ developers from all over the world, I realized something: career advice should be accessible to all (regardless of time, budget, or experience). So today, I’m excited to launch the next phase: a 1-hour masterclass. It’s something close to my heart — something I believe can make a real difference for developers at all stages of their careers. And yes: it’s completely free. As I mentioned before, helping developers grow is what drives me. Whether it’s unblocking someone who’s stuck, offering a fresh perspective, or bringing clarity in the chaos — we all need that from time to time. Over the years, I’ve coached dozens of developers, helping them grow from “just coding” to “maki…  ( 8 min )

After more than a decade of teasing us with Alien vs Predator crossovers in comics, games and that little nod in Predator 2, Caravan of Garbage finally dives into the live-action mash-ups: 2004’s Alien VS Predator and its 2007 sequel Requiem. The hosts poke fun at the films’ few high points and many missed opportunities, all wrapped up in their trademark snarky banter. This two-part review serves as a tasty appetizer before next week’s deep dive into the first four Predator movies — so buckle up for more monster mayhem and witty commentary! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

GitHub Home I remember a few years ago, I was leading a team to develop a real-time stock ticker dashboard. 📈 Initially, everyone's enthusiasm was incredibly high. We were all excited to build a "live" application with our own hands. But soon, we found ourselves stuck in the mud. The tech stack we chose performed reasonably well for ordinary REST APIs, but as soon as WebSockets came into the picture, everything became unrecognizable. Our codebase split into two worlds: the "main application" that handled HTTP requests, and a "separate module" that handled WebSocket connections. Sharing state between these two worlds, like a user's login information, became a nightmare. We had to resort to some very clever (or rather, ugly) methods, like using Redis or a message queue to synchronize data. …  ( 9 min )

Everything Wrong With Every Saw Movie EVER (That We’ve Sinned So Far) CinemaSins just dropped a mega sins compilation ripping apart every Saw flick to date. Want more binge-worthy cringe? Hit up their main site (cinemasins.com), subscribe to TVSins, CommercialSins and the CinemaSins Podcast, or follow their Linktree for the latest drops and behind-the-scenes action. They’re itching to know what you think—take their sinful poll—and if you’re feeling generous, support the small but mighty team on Patreon. Shout-outs to writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel (peep their socials), and join the community on Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok for extra movie-murder mayhem. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

In this cheeky “Everything Wrong With Final Destination: Bloodlines” video, CinemaSins applies its trademark tongue-in-cheek critique to the latest chapter in the franchise, pointing out every absurd plot twist and over-the-top death scene in under 24 minutes. They keep it fun, call out the movie’s nonsensical moments, and remind fans that sometimes a little therapy (courtesy of BetterHelp) doesn’t hurt. Along the way, they plug their main site and socials—YouTube channels (TV Sins, Commercial Sins, CinemaSins Podcast Network), linktr.ee page, a sinful poll, and Patreon—while crediting writers like Jeremy, Aaron, Deneé, Ian and more. For community shenanigans, they drop Discord and Reddit invites, plus Instagram and TikTok handles. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

title: Samba on Linux - Secure File Sharing for Mixed Environments Enable secure, controlled file sharing across Windows and Linux clients using Samba. This guide walks you through a basic setup, which forms the foundation for building a secure, maintainable file server. I might be showing my gray hairs here, but Samba was one of the first open source projects I ever heard about—long before I even knew what Linux was. Back then, I was fresh out of university, working at a small company where the system administrator had set up a Samba server for shared drives across the office. It was one of those “Linux can do that?” moments that stuck with me. Fast forward to today: even in the age of cloud storage and SaaS platforms, on-premises file shares are still very much alive. Samba remains relev…  ( 9 min )

When working on multiple interdependent NPM packages across projects, testing a new version before publishing is essential. At Prisma Media, we maintain several packages on our private NPM registry, used directly on our websites. While each package comes with a standalone demo, we regularly need to validate development versions in real environments. npm pack Running npm pack builds your package locally and generates a .tgz archive identical to what would be published with npm publish. The archive is created in the current directory and includes only the files defined in the files field of your package.json or filtered by .npmignore. It's also a convenient way to verify what your package will actually ship before publishing. Inspecting the generated archive helps ensure that only the expe…  ( 8 min )

The Challenge When a customer calls a bank, a lot happens behind the scenes: an agent listens, takes notes, types into Salesforce, and classifies the issue. Then the business owner will go through the unresolved issues in Salesforce and manually create a Jira story for further tracking. It’s a mess of tabs, forms, and human fatigue. For Hacktoberfest 2025, our team decided to automate this entire workflow by building AutoBankingCustomerService with MindsDB. Our goal was to turn hours of manual case handling into an automated pipeline that could: Summarize each customer call. Classify whether it’s resolved or unresolved. Escalate unresolved issues directly into Jira, complete with recommendations for next steps. All of this needed to happen automatically, using enterprise systems that alr…  ( 11 min )

¡Hola! Esta es mi primera publicación y hoy aprendí a crear un script de Super velocidad. El personaje podrá aumentar su velocidad al mantener presionada la tecla Shift. Debe ubicarse cerca del personaje, dentro de StarterPlayer -> StarterCharacterScripts. De esta forma, nuestro script tendrá contexto sobre los hijos de Character, como el Humanoid. Usaremos UserInputService para manejar las entradas del usuario y actualizar la WalkSpeed ​​del Humanoid. local humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") local defaultWaklSpeed = humanoid.WalkSpeed local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService") UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect( function(input, processed) if not processed and input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.LeftShift then print("Se esta presionando shift") humanoid.WalkSpeed = defaultWaklSpeed * 2 end end ) UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect( function(input) if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.LeftShift then print("Se dejo de presionar shift") humanoid.WalkSpeed = defaultWaklSpeed end end ) Gracias por leer, diviértanse!  ( 6 min )

Intrigued by Kent Beck's blog Augmented Coding: Beyond the Vibes, I wanted to experiment with AI-assisted Test Driven Development capabilities. For that, I coded the small library release-parrot. This blog is a quick personal review - any feedback is very welcome 🤗 Did AI1 help me to finish the project quicker? I assume no write a better test suite?2 I assume no improve the code quality? I assume no improve the documentation? Yes! It relieved me of the (for me) tedious task of documentation and did it well. For example, before publishing I reviewed everything myself. Afterwards, I simply asked AI 'Is the project ready for its first release?' And AI found two errors in the documentation, that I had overlooked (it had forgotten to update a section when it had made some changes. But I had…  ( 7 min )

View on Legoblock npm package In the world of modern web applications, hierarchical data is everywhere. File systems, organizational charts, navigation menus, comment threads, and nested filters all share a common challenge: rendering tree structures efficiently while maintaining clean, maintainable code. Enter Legoblock, a headless recursive renderer that elegantly solves this problem with a fresh approach to nested data visualization. Legoblock (@legoblock/ui) is a lightweight React library that handles the complex parts of tree rendering—recursion and immutable state updates—while giving you complete control over the visual presentation. Unlike monolithic component libraries that lock you into specific designs, Legoblock embraces the "headless UI" philosophy: it manages the logic, you c…  ( 11 min )

Programming languages like C# let you write instructions that you want the computer to carry out. Each programming language has its own syntax, but after learning your first programming language and attempting to learn another one, you'll quickly realize that they all share many similar concepts. A programming language's job is to allow a human to express their intent in a human-readable and understandable way. The instructions you write in a programming language are called "source code" or just "code". Software developers write code At this point, a developer can update and change the code, but the computer can't understand the code. The code first must be compiled into a format that the computer can understand. Compilation compiler converts your source code into a different format that t…  ( 15 min )

If you work with Docker on a daily basis — you’ve probably seen it happen: The truth? It’s not Docker’s fault — it’s yours 😉 Old images Stopped containers Unused volumes Build cache layers How to Clean Up Docker? Full Cleanup (Deletes Everything!) docker system prune -a --volumes Removes all stopped containers Removes all unused images Removes all unused volumes Clears build cache 💡 Tip: Add --dry-run first to preview what will be deleted. Gentle Cleanup (Safe for Daily Use) docker system prune Removes stopped containers, dangling images, and unused networks Does not delete volumes Safe to run regularly Delete Images Only docker image prune -a Delete Volumes Only docker volume prune Delete Build Cache Only docker builder prune If you work on multiple projects or rebuild images often, make it a habit to run these cleanup commands once a week. Good luck!💫  ( 6 min )

Published: October 26, 2025 Model Version: DeepSeek-OCR v1 (Oct 20, 2025) Last Verified: October 26, 2025 I spent three hours last week watching my API costs balloon because of one document. Not a video. Not a massive dataset. Just a 10-page PDF that needed OCR processing. The problem? Traditional OCR pipelines were spitting out thousands of tokens that my LLM had to chew through. Every. Single. Page. That's when I stumbled upon DeepSeek-OCR, and honestly, the numbers looked too good to be true. Here's the thing about modern LLMs: they're expensive. Not because the models are bad, but because context windows eat tokens like candy. Let's say you're building a document processing pipeline. You scan an invoice, extract text with OCR, then feed it to GPT-4 for analysis. Simple, right? But th…  ( 12 min )

Enterprises undergoing digital transformation face a central challenge: balancing performance optimization with operational flexibility. As organizations move beyond traditional virtualization solutions, open-source cloud platforms are redefining what’s possible in infrastructure management. These solutions empower IT teams to build scalable, cost-effective environments that adapt dynamically to workload demands while maintaining strong governance and control. The global cloud landscape is evolving rapidly. Businesses no longer want to rely solely on proprietary technologies that impose licensing restrictions, limit customization, and drive up costs over time. Open-source platforms provide a pathway to freedom—enabling organizations to design and control their infrastructure without vend…  ( 7 min )

The healthcare industry faces mounting pressure to maintain airtight data security while streamlining daily operations. Between evolving privacy laws, workforce mobility, and the rapid adoption of digital collaboration tools, manual identity management has become a significant liability. Automated identity management systems offer a solution that reduces human error, improves compliance readiness, and accelerates onboarding without compromising patient data security. Healthcare organizations operate in complex environments where clinicians, administrative staff, and contractors frequently change roles or locations. Each of these shifts requires precise updates to user permissions across multiple systems—from electronic health record (EHR) software to communication platforms and cloud sto…  ( 7 min )

In project-based industries, profitability depends not only on tracking expenses but also on anticipating them. Predictive cost forecasting has emerged as a powerful tool that enables businesses to move beyond static reporting toward proactive financial management. By leveraging historical data, real-time analytics, and machine learning, organizations can predict where their budgets are heading before overruns occur—turning insights into decisive action. Traditional cost control relies on retrospective data—numbers that show what already happened. While this information is valuable, it often arrives too late to influence outcomes. Predictive forecasting transforms this reactive approach into a forward-looking strategy, allowing companies to forecast labor demands, material usage, and equ…  ( 7 min )

As data volumes continue to explode, organizations face growing challenges around backup storage, bandwidth consumption, and overall system performance. Traditional backup methods often copy identical data blocks repeatedly, leading to massive inefficiencies. Data deduplication solves this problem by identifying and eliminating duplicate information across backups, allowing IT teams to store more data using far less space. Data deduplication is a process that analyzes data at the block or file level to detect identical content. Instead of saving multiple copies of the same information, it stores a single unique instance and references it wherever needed. This process significantly reduces storage requirements, especially in environments where large amounts of redundant data exist—such as…  ( 7 min )

🚀 Intro The JavaScript module ecosystem is in transition. ESM (ECMAScript Modules) has become the modern standard, but CommonJS (CJS) remains deeply entrenched in the ecosystem. ECMAScript Modules (ESM), introduced in ES6 (2015), is the standardised JavaScript module system designed to work seamlessly across both browsers and servers, unifying how JavaScript handles modularity. ⚡ Enables better performance and optimisation through asynchronous loading and built-in tree-shaking via static analysis, allowing browsers and bundlers to eliminate unused code automatically. 🌐 Provides universal compatibility with native browser support (no bundlers required) while also working seamlessly on the server-side, making it suitable for both environments. ✨ Offers modern developer features, includin…  ( 8 min )

The Wake-Up Call Let me tell you about a conversation I've had more times than I can count: Finance: "Our AWS bill is $45,000 this month. Why is it so high?" Engineering: "We need resources to develop and test. It's the cost of doing business." Finance: "But your dev environment costs $18,000. That's 40% of the total. For testing?" Engineering: "Well… it has to be available when we need it." Here's what nobody says out loud: That dev environment is idle 70% of the time. Let's break down a typical dev/test environment: Running 24/7 (US-East-1 pricing): 3× t3.large EC2 instances: ~$61/month each = $183 1× db.t3.large RDS (SQL Server Web): ~$109/month 1× Application Load Balancer: ~$23/month Supporting resources (EBS, data transfer, backups): ~$50/month Monthly cost: ~$365/month Annual cos…  ( 10 min )

We build the same FastAPI endpoint three ways and compare trade-offs with code Have you ever shipped something that “felt right”… and a week later you’re untangling spaghetti? If any of that sounds familiar, this post is for you. We’ll compare three very real ways engineers work in 2025: Vibe coding (code-first, intuition-driven) Test-Driven Development (TDD) (red → green → refactor) Spec-Driven Development (start with an executable spec; code follows) To keep it concrete, we’ll build the same tiny feature three ways: a POST /price endpoint that adds VAT and applies a discount code. You’ll see what each mode feels like, where it shines, where it bites and you can open the matching folders in the repo (vibe/, tdd/, spec_driven/) to run the examples and go deeper. Vibe coding is like cook…  ( 9 min )

Hey everyone 👋 If you have been following my posts, you might have noticed that I have been pretty quiet lately 😅 I have been spending a lot of time building my own homelab a place where I can safely test, break, and rebuild complex infrastructures without worrying about cloud costs or production risks 🧑‍💻 My goal is simple Let me walk you through the why and the how ⚙️ The Motivation As a DevOps and SRE engineer, Kubernetes is part of my daily life. ✅ complete freedom A homelab gives me full control of the stack including: network, storage, virtualization, routing, DNS, automation and resilience strategies 💪 It rapidly became much more than a hobby. It is now my mini data center 🧩 Proxmox as the Foundation To host everything, I chose Proxmox VE Reasons behind this choice: Each hyper…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR: 8bitMusicTheory breaks down Masashi Hamauzu’s signature “Sus Chord Slash Chord” trick—a versatile, color-rich harmony staple in his Final Fantasy scores. You’ll learn how to build and layer fancy extensions that give you those lush, cinematic vibes. He walks you through: Crafting that Suspended Chord Slash Chord foundation Dialing in a dreamy Minor 11 flavor Spicing things up with Maj 13 and Maj 7#11 twists Adding a sweet first-inversion Maj 2 lift …then shows how to combine them all into one gorgeous, Hamauzu-worthy progression. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Ridiculous Reason Why 90% of Golfers Can’t Strike Their Irons & Hybrids Turns out most of your ball-striking woes come down to setup: your sternum’s out of place, your forearms aren’t inline, your posture’s off, and you’re not shifting weight properly. Oh, and there’s one nifty little tweak that makes the whole swing feel effortless. Nail just one of these fixes and you’ll instantly clean up your iron and driver contact. Danny Maude’s practice plan walks you through each fault so you can start ripping purer shots ASAP. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Jeff Su’s CORE Workflow teaches you a simple, four-step productivity hack he rolled out to over 6,600 Googlers: Capture every nugget of info on the spot, Organize it with zero friction, Review it during scheduled catch-ups, then Engage by time-blocking your tasks. It’s tool-agnostic, gets under your skin in two weeks, and ditches the whole “just remember it” or “must-willpower-through” drama. Plug it into any note-taking or task app you already love, lean on the built-in prompts and templates, and watch your brain offload stress while actually getting stuff done. No fluff—just a system that works. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home "We should write more tests." In every technical meeting, this sentence is repeated like a sacred mantra. Everyone nods in agreement, everyone knows this is the "right" thing to do. But back at their desks, the expression on many faces turns to one of pain. 😫 Why? Because in many projects, writing tests is a chore. The tests run as slow as a turtle; a full test suite takes long enough for you to brew three cups of coffee. ☕️ The test code itself is more complex and harder to understand than the business logic. And the deadliest part: these tests are incredibly "brittle." You change a CSS class name in the frontend, or add a field to a JSON response, and hundreds of tests mysteriously fail. 💔 If you can relate to these scenarios, then as an old-timer, I want to let you in on a…  ( 10 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back to poke fun at Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie on its theatrical re-release—14 minutes of gleeful nitpicking, witty jabs, and loving “sins” despite praising the movie. They’ve loaded the video description with links to their website, other YouTube channels, a quick poll, Patreon support, Discord and Reddit communities, plus social handles for all the writers. Join in the fun, share your takes, and catch more CinemaSins content wherever you hang out online! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

After a decade of comic and game mash-ups, Caravan of Garbage finally dives into the two live-action Alien vs Predator flicks (2004’s Alien VS Predator and 2007’s Requiem). While they deliver a few cool moments, they ultimately don’t live up to the crossover hype—and next week the gang shifts gears to tackle the first four Predator movies. Craving more bonus content? Swing by bigsandwich.co for early videos, podcasts, and game let’s-plays. Don’t forget to follow James (@mrsundaymovies) and Maso (@wikipediabrown) on Twitter, subscribe to The Weekly Planet, back them on Patreon, or rock some merch! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

🔧 SysNova Toolkit: Ethical System Diagnostics for Windows & macOS — Built by a Self-Taught Technician 🧠 What is SysNova Toolkit? SysNova Toolkit is a modular suite of system diagnostics and optimization tools designed for Windows and macOS environments. Built entirely by a self-taught technician, the project focuses on ethical design, speed, and full user control — without relying on commercial software or bloated utilities. As a passionate autodidact, I’ve spent years studying system behavior, performance bottlenecks, and diagnostic techniques. I wanted tools that were lightweight, transparent, and truly useful — not just flashy interfaces or locked features. So I built SysNova from scratch, module by module. Cross-platform compatibility (Windows & macOS) Modular architecture — use only what you need CLI-based tools for real control No telemetry, no hidden processes Open source and fully documented GitHub: MentalistOps/MentalistOps Website: https://mentalistops.github.io/MentalistOps 📬 Contact Feel free to reach out: mentalist.ops [at] protonmail [dot] com I’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or ideas for future modules. Whether you're a sysadmin, developer, or just curious about system internals — SysNova is built for you.  ( 8 min )

GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

A RESTful API that fetches country data from external APIs, stores it in a MySQL database, and provides CRUD operations with caching support. Fetch country data from REST Countries API Fetch exchange rates from Open Exchange Rates API Calculate estimated GDP for each country Cache data in MySQL database Filter and sort countries by region, currency, and GDP Generate summary images with top countries Full CRUD operations Comprehensive error handling Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/ameh0429/country-api.git cd country-api Install dependencies npm install axios canvas dotenv express mysql2 Set up environment variables Create a .env file in the root directory: PORT=3000 DB_HOST=localhost DB_USER=root DB_PASSWORD=yourpassword DB_NAME=countries_db DB_PORT=3306 Cre…  ( 9 min )

This post documents the knowledge I’ve gained while learning how to perform data backups in MySQL. It serves both as a learning note and a reference for future use. When performing a logical backup (for example, using mysqldump), ensuring data consistency is critical — especially in an active transactional environment. This post explains how to use MySQL’s Repeatable Read isolation level, consistent snapshots, and savepoints to achieve that. Let’s look directly at the example SQL script: Q1: SET SESSION TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ; Q2: START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT; /* other tables */ Q3: SAVEPOINT sp; /* Time 1 */ Q4: SHOW CREATE TABLE `t1`; /* Time 2 */ Q5: SELECT * FROM `t1`; /* Time 3 */ Q6: ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT sp; /* Time 4 */ /* other tables */ At the…  ( 7 min )

TL;DR: localStorage is convenient, but it’s a glass box. If you’re building a digital ID wallet (cards, IDs, passes), move secrets out of JS-readable storage. Use passkeys/WebAuthn for auth, httpOnly cookies or a BFF for sessions, and E2EE with non-extractable keys + IndexedDB for encrypted payloads. Sprinkle in CSP, Trusted Types, and a service worker for defense-in-depth. Why localStorage is the wrong place for secrets XSS exfiltration: Any script that runs in your origin can read localStorage. That means one missed output-escape, compromised NPM dependency, or misconfigured third-party and your tokens are gone. Long-lived & persistent: Secrets survive tabs, reloads, and crashes. Great for convenience, terrible for incident response. No flags: Unlike cookies, you can’t mark localStorage …  ( 10 min )

Introduction Java is a powerful and mature language, but it comes with a cost: a lot of boilerplate code. Think about the endless getters, setters, constructors, and toString() methods you’ve written over the years. They don’t add business value — they just make your code longer and harder to read. That’s where Project Lombok comes to the rescue. Lombok uses annotations to generate boilerplate code at compile time, letting you focus on actual logic instead of repetitive syntax. It integrates perfectly with Spring Boot, which makes it one of the most popular tools in modern Java development. In this article, we’ll explore 10 Lombok annotations every Java developer should know and discuss best practices and common pitfalls so you can use Lombok effectively and safely. How to Add Lombok to…  ( 10 min )

Error handling is part and parcel of good software development. You could probably live without them if you’re building a landing page, an invitation card, and maybe (hopefully) an MVP?!. However, if you ever want to delve deep into building world-class products, projects that stand the test of time, you need some good error-handling skills in your arsenal. Last week, I published a helpful guide on try and catch block error. Today, I’m in the mood (actually, a bug put me in the mood :)) to talk about “throwing errors” Let’s get right in. I sincerely got to learn about throwing errors, playing with Supabase.  E.g, A typical fetch query to Supabase could look like this… const { data, error } = supabase.from(‘user_profiles’).select(‘*’).eq(user_id, ‘userId’) The error object provides info…  ( 9 min )

Inspired by Repomix's Token Count Optimization feature, which I had explored in my previous blog, I decided to add a similar feature to my own project, repo-contextr. The idea was to help developers quickly find out how many tokens their repository would take when used with large language models. This helps plan for context limits and estimate API costs more easily. Before starting the development, I created a feature request issue: Issue #18. The goal was to use the Tiktoken library by OpenAI for accurate token counting. About Tiktoken: Tiktoken is OpenAI’s fast tokenizer that can count tokens exactly as OpenAI models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 do. It’s widely used by tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex to calculate how much text fits into a model’s context window. Instead of guessing based…  ( 7 min )

Over the past few years, ChatGPT has become one of the most widely used AI tools in the world, powering everything from casual conversations to technical coding help, tutoring, writing, customer service, and more. But behind its friendly interface lies a staggering amount of complexity, engineering, and innovation. This article pulls back the curtain on how ChatGPT was built not just as a product, but as a large language model (LLM) trained on massive datasets, guided by human feedback, and optimized for usefulness and safety. We’ll explore the key stages in its development, from gathering data and training the base model, to aligning it with human values and deploying it at scale. Along the way, we’ll also highlight deeper insights from AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, who offers a more te…  ( 22 min )

A modular Node.js/Express API service that analyzes strings and stores their computed properties. String analysis with multiple computed properties SHA-256 based unique identification RESTful API endpoints Query filtering with standard parameters Natural language query parsing In-memory storage (easily replaceable with database) Comprehensive error handling src/ ├── index.js # Server entry point ├── app.js # Express app configuration ├── controllers/ │ └── stringController.js # Request handlers ├── services/ │ ├── stringAnalyzer.js # String analysis logic │ ├── stringService.js # Business logic layer │ └── naturalLanguageParser.js # NL query parser ├── repositories/ │ └── stringRepository.…  ( 7 min )

GitHub Home Every programmer has had that moment. You join a new project, or you open up a project you wrote yourself six months ago, and then you feel it—that familiar, suffocating chaos. 🌪️ The utils folder is stuffed with hundreds of disorganized functions, a massive services.js file mixes database queries, business logic, and third-party API calls, and route definitions are scattered throughout the codebase. You want to add a small feature, but you don't know where to put the code. You want to fix a bug, but you have to trace a variable's journey through a tangled mess of "spaghetti code." 🍝 We call this phenomenon "software entropy," or more colloquially, "project rot." How does that clean, elegant, and hopeful little project at the beginning turn, step by step, into a "big ball of …  ( 10 min )

lus-laboris-py es un sistema de investigación legal impulsado por IA que actualmente utiliza una arquitectura basada en FastAPI con integración de OpenAI, Qdrant para búsqueda vectorial, y Arize Phoenix para monitoreo. Este post propone una modernización arquitectónica integrando LangChain para mejorar la modularidad, escalabilidad y mantenibilidad del sistema. Según el README del proyecto github.com/jesusoviedo/lus-laboris-py, el sistema actual implementa: Usuario → FastAPI → OpenAI LLM → Qdrant Vector Search → Respuesta Legal Stack Tecnológico Actual: FastAPI para la API OpenAI para procesamiento de LLM Qdrant para búsqueda vectorial Arize Phoenix para monitoreo Docker para containerización UV como gestor de paquetes Características Actuales: Sistema de investigación legal automatizado …  ( 8 min )

En este post, exploramos cómo LangChain se integra en un sistema RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) real para crear un asistente de astrología china (紫微斗数). El proyecto ziweidoushu es un ejemplo de arquitectura de producción que utiliza LangChain para orquestar un flujo complejo de procesamiento de documentos, recuperación híbrida, y generación de respuestas personalizadas. Repositorio del Proyecto: github.com/clementlwm94/ziweidoushu Ziweidoushu es un sistema que: Genera cartas natales chinas desde datos de nacimiento Recupera conocimiento relevante de una base de datos vectorial (Qdrant) Combina información específica del usuario con conocimiento del dominio Genera respuestas personalizadas usando LLMs (GPT-4) LangChain es un framework de Python diseñado para construir aplicaciones bas…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR - Quick Answer What is Meetily? A self-hosted, privacy-first AI meeting assistant built with Rust that runs entirely on your device. Unlike Otter.ai, Fireflies, or Granola, your sensitive conversations never leave your infrastructure. Features local AI live transcription and local LLM processing. Open-source core with enterprise options for organizations needing centralized management. Why it matters: Defense teams, Legal teams, healthcare organizations, and financial services need AI meeting notes but can't send privileged communications to third-party servers. Meetily solves this with 100% local processing. Follow and support our Launch: November 5, 2025 on Product Hunt | Follow the launch → GitHub: Support us on GitHub → Six months ago, I was preparing for a legal call about a…  ( 18 min )

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is one of the most essential services in the AWS ecosystem. It handles authentication (who you are), authorization (what you’re allowed to do) across your AWS environment. Every request to AWS is evaluated by IAM before it’s allowed or denied. In other words — IAM is the security gatekeeper for your AWS account. Every AWS account starts with a single root user — the credentials created when you first set up your account. This is the most priviveled user in the account because it has unrestricted access to every resource. As best security practice, avoid using the root user for daily operations. As mentioned in one of my previous blogs, IAM is built around four fundamental building blocks: IAM Users are individual user user accounts, similar to those y…  ( 8 min )

When I joined Stapubox as a Backend + QA Intern, I thought testing would be the “less exciting” part of the journey. Within the first week, I realized testing isn’t about clicking buttons or breaking things—it’s about understanding how real users think. And that changed the way I look at building products forever. Since this was my first experience in QA, I honestly didn’t know where to start. A senior teammate gave me a simple but powerful suggestion: “Before you think like a developer, think like a user. Do a bit of monkey testing first.” At first, it sounded funny. But when I started exploring the app like a curious user—signing up, creating a profile, testing chats, checking recommendations—I began noticing small details I would’ve completely ignored as a developer. Tiny loading delays. Individually, they seemed minor. But together, they told a bigger story about user experience. That’s when it hit me—every tiny inconsistency matters because that’s exactly what a user notices first. By the second week, I wasn’t just finding bugs anymore. Testing taught me lessons no coding tutorial ever could: Empathy beats logic. You can’t build something great unless you understand how it feels to use it. Small details aren’t small. A one-second delay or an unhandled state can define how users perceive your entire product. QA makes you a sharper developer. It forces you to think beyond “does this code work?” to “does this experience make sense?” Now, whenever I write backend logic, I automatically imagine how a user will interact with that flow on the front end. I used to think testing was the final step in development. If you’re a developer—especially early in your journey—I’d love to hear this from you: Let’s share stories, not just syntax. 👇  ( 7 min )

Hey, as mentioned in the previous post, we are gunning at project-based CSE learning. The list of projects here are curated with the intention of depth in breadth. The breadth aspect is the number of fields covered and depth is the time frame and feature implementation in each project. Each aims to be challenging enough to bring forth the entirety of my focus and effort to complete within the given time frame. With that, here is the set of projects to create in the next 6 months — The System Suite, as GPT named it: (the following text was generated from GPT) Goal: Build a working compiler that translates a subset of Tiny BASIC into valid C++ source. Focus Areas: Lexical Analysis → Tokenizer Parsing → Recursive descent parser / Pratt parser AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) represe…  ( 9 min )

After months of building, debugging, and fine-tuning… 🔗 Live Now: https://swapnil.mohite.in/ 💡 Tech Behind the Build: 📂 What You’ll Find Inside: 💬 I’d love your thoughts! DevOps #Cloud #AWS #Flask #React #Vite #TailwindCSS #Docker #Terraform #Vercel #Portfolio #Kubernetes #SRE #CICD #CloudEngineer #DevOpsEngineer #WebDev #OpenSource #TechCommunity  ( 6 min )

NaViL: A Smarter AI That Learns to See and Talk Together Ever wondered how a robot could look at a photo and describe it as naturally as a friend? Scientists have discovered a fresh approach called NaViL that trains vision and language parts of AI side‑by‑side, instead of stitching two pre‑made pieces together. breakthrough shows that smarter, cheaper AI is possible, opening doors for more apps in education, accessibility, and everyday gadgets. NaViL paves the way for a world where machines truly understand what they see. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: NaViL: Rethinking Scaling Properties of Native Multimodal Large Language Modelsunder Data Constraints 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 8 min )

How to Write Clean DTO & Entity Mappers in Java (with Spring Boot) Introduction When building a Spring Boot application, one of the most common patterns you’ll encounter is mapping between Entities and DTOs (Data Transfer Objects). But why should you separate them? Why not just expose your JPA entities directly through your API? The short answer: maintainability, security, and performance. Maintainability: DTOs decouple your API layer from the database schema, giving you flexibility to change one without breaking the other. Security: You can control exactly what data is exposed to the client, avoiding accidental leaks of sensitive fields. Performance: DTOs can be optimized to include only the required fields, reducing payload size and unnecessary joins. In this article,…  ( 9 min )

The Productivity System Jeff Su taught to over 6,600 Googlers is built around a simple 4-step “CORE” workflow: • Capture everything immediately • Organize with minimal friction • Review during scheduled sessions • Engage by blocking dedicated time to execute It works with any tool you already use and becomes automatic within two weeks—no more relying on memory or willpower alone. Jeff also shares blog posts, templates, prompts, a Workspace Academy course, and his favorite gear to help you build a powerful, personalized workflow. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Introduction Did you know that Tailscale network flow logs can be visualized in New Relic? Take a look at my dashboard: To get started, you'll need to have Tailscale Enterprise, as this is the only option that lets you stream network flow logs. While this is not officially supported (yet), network flow logs from Tailscale can be streamed to New Relic. The only thing you need is the log endpoint https://log-api.newrelic.com/log/v1 and your New Relic Ingest license key (ending with NRAL). At a first glace, most people wouldn't know it can be done, thanks to the Tailscale admin dashboard only showing a few vendors to stream to: Since we only require the log endpoint and the license key, I tried using these two parametes with each of the vendors to see what actually gets the log data into…  ( 8 min )

In today’s digital world, your website isn’t just your online presence — it’s your growth engine. Whether you’re a startup, freelancer, or growing brand, building your site on the right framework can make or break your long-term scalability and visibility. That’s where Next.js stands out. Speed isn’t just nice to have — it directly affects your conversions, SEO rankings, and user experience. Next.js automatically optimizes images, bundles assets efficiently, and supports Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG). In simple terms: 🚀 Pages load faster 📈 Google ranks you higher 💰 Visitors convert better No extra setup required. Many JavaScript frameworks struggle with SEO because search engines can’t easily crawl client-side rendered pages. Next.js fixes that with S…  ( 7 min )

CinemaSins is back with a rapid-fire “Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie in 14 Minutes or Less,” gleefully pointing out every quirk and nitpick in Tim Burton’s beloved film—even as they admit it’s a great movie. They’ve also got spins on TV shows, commercials and podcasts, so be sure to check out @TVSins, @commercialsins and @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork. The episode was written by Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel. For more sinful content, visit their website, fill out a quick poll, or support them on Patreon. You can also join the community on Discord and Reddit, or follow CinemaSins on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

After years of teasing a monster mash-up in comics, games and even a wink in 1991’s Predator 2, we finally got live-action showdowns in 2004’s Alien vs Predator and its 2007 sequel Requiem. They pack some solid creature carnage but don’t quite live up to the epic crossover hype. This video stitches together two Caravan Of Garbage reviews of those films before the hosts pivot next week to tackle the first four Predator movies—with all the usual banter, bonus content and merch plugs you’ve come to expect. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Simplifying Complex Licensing Models Without Sacrificing Security Complex licensing models often create headaches for software publishers trying to protect their products. You want to simplify licensing without opening the door to security risks. Quick License Manager offers a way to streamline license management while keeping your software safe and your customers happy. Read on to see how you can simplify licensing models without compromising on security. Simplifying Software Licensing Models It's time to cut through the complexity of software licensing. You need solutions that protect your products and make management easier. That's where streamlining license management comes in. Streamlining License Management Imagine reducing the time spent on managing licenses without compromising sec…  ( 8 min )

Nature has always been a source of inspiration, peace, and balance for humankind. From the quiet rustle of trees in a forest to the gentle rhythm of waves meeting the shore, the natural world reminds us of life’s simplicity and beauty. Among all of nature’s wonders, water especially the vast and mesmerizing ocean holds a special place in nurturing both the body and mind. The Essence of Water Water is often called the essence of life, and for good reason. Every living organism depends on it, not just for survival but also for renewal. Water symbolizes purity, clarity, and calmness. Whether it’s the soothing sound of a flowing river or the glistening reflection of sunlight on a lake, water has an almost magical ability to still the mind and bring peace to the heart. Scientists have even show…  ( 7 min )

In this tutorial, we'll explore how to draw a spiral using JavaScript and the HTML5 element. We'll break down the code and concepts, making it easy for beginners to follow along. For those who want to jump right in and play with a finished product, check out this online spiral maker. First, we need an HTML file with a element. This is where our spiral will be drawn. JS Spiral Now, let's dive into the JavaScript. The core idea is to draw a series of lines that rotate and expand from the center. We start by getting a reference to our canvas and its 2D drawing context. const canvas = document.getElementById('spiral-ca…  ( 8 min )

Riya Sharma, a freelance graphic designer from Pune, started her creative journey in 2021. While her design skills attracted clients globally, she faced one persistent issue — managing invoices. Each time she completed a project, she had to spend extra time formatting bills, adding client details, calculating GST, and converting everything into a professional invoice. This manual process was eating up hours every month and sometimes even led to delayed payments because her invoices weren’t always client-ready or professional-looking. The Challenge Like many freelancers, Riya used a mix of Excel sheets and Word templates to create invoices. Time-consuming formatting for each new client. No automatic calculation of totals and GST. Inconsistent invoice designs that didn’t match her profession…  ( 7 min )

Learning to Code like Crafting in an MMORPG Skriptmonkey ・ Oct 25 #learning #coding #gaming #mmorpg  ( 6 min )

RouteWise AI - Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge Submission This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge RouteWise AI is an intelligent rideshare platform that revolutionizes the transportation experience through AI-powered agents that work seamlessly with Auth0 for AI Agents security. The platform addresses real-world challenges in ride-sharing by providing personalized, secure, and intelligent transportation services. Traditional rideshare platforms lack personalization and intelligent decision-making. RouteWise AI solves this by: Intelligent Ride Matching: AI agents analyze passenger preferences and driver capabilities to optimize matches Personalized Experience: AI agents curate music, climate, and conversation preferences for each ride Safety Monitoring: Continuous AI-powe…  ( 9 min )

RouteWise AI - Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge Submission This is a submission for the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge RouteWise AI is an intelligent rideshare platform that revolutionizes the transportation experience through AI-powered agents that work seamlessly with Auth0 for AI Agents security. The platform addresses real-world challenges in ride-sharing by providing personalized, secure, and intelligent transportation services. Traditional rideshare platforms lack personalization and intelligent decision-making. RouteWise AI solves this by: Intelligent Ride Matching: AI agents analyze passenger preferences and driver capabilities to optimize matches Personalized Experience: AI agents curate music, climate, and conversation preferences for each ride Safety Monitoring: Continuous AI-powe…  ( 9 min )

Learning to Code like Crafting in an MMORPG Skriptmonkey ・ Oct 25 #learning #coding #gaming #mmorpg  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home In our toolbox, there are always a few "star" tools. 🛠️ In the realm of real-time web communication, WebSocket is undoubtedly the brightest star. It's powerful, supports bidirectional communication, and has become the "default answer" for almost all real-time needs. So, when a product manager comes to you and says, "Hey, we need a dashboard that updates in real-time!" the first thing that pops into many programmers' minds is: "Okay, let's use WebSockets!" But, wait a minute. ✋ As an old-timer who has been navigating this world for decades, I want to ask: do we always need a "Swiss Army knife" to peel an apple? 🍎 I've seen too many scenarios where a simple feature that only requires unidirectional data push from the server to the client—like site notifications, stock price upd…  ( 9 min )

You've built an AI agent. It's smart, it's conversational, and it can reason through complex problems. There's just one problem: it lives in a bubble. Your agent can't check Slack, pull data from your Postgres database, read files from Google Drive, or update tickets in Linear. Every time you want to add a new integration, you're staring down weeks of custom API work, authentication headaches, and the inevitable "wait, their API changed again?" moments. This is the N×M problem, and it's been quietly killing AI agent projects for years. Every agent needs to connect to M services, and every service speaks a different language. The math is brutal: 10 agents × 50 services = 500 custom integrations to build and maintain. Enter the Model Context Protocol. MCP addresses the challenge where every …  ( 10 min )

Собрал небольшой прототип чат-ассистента, который умеет отвечать на вопросы по внутренней документации. Под капотом — классическая схема Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): данные хранятся в векторной базе, а при каждом запросе к OpenAI подмешивается контекст из релевантных документов. Проект заточен под wiki Яндекса, но если заменить парсер, можно использовать для любой другой базы знаний. Как работает: Парсинг документации — скрипт вытягивает нужные страницы из wiki и сохраняет их в .md. Ингест — Markdown-файлы превращаются в векторы (через Sentence-Transformers или OpenAI embeddings) и индексируются в FAISS. RAG-агент — при запросе ищет релевантные куски текста, добавляет их в промпт и отправляет в OpenAI API. Всё это обёрнуто в простой CLI-интерфейс, можно общаться с ботом прямо из терминала. Что умеет: Отвечает на вопросы по документации Находит и цитирует источники (https://wiki.yandex.ru/...) Поддерживает русский язык (вопросы и ответы) Как запустить расписывать здесь не буду, есть подробное README.md в репозитории. Полезность сомнительная, но для экспериментов с RAG и векторными базами — пойдет. Ну и, конечно, почти весь код написал ChatGPT, я только немного подкрутил под свои нужды.  ( 6 min )

Web developers love speed. Not only fast load times, but also fast development. Who wants to spend hours configuring service workers, caching strategies, and icons for every device on Earth? Not you. Not me. Nobody. Here enters… NextPWA Starter. Your magical toolbox powered by Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS, and fully-baked PWA support. Package it as an offline-first superhero. Deploy it like a pro. Ship it fast. Then sip chai like a champion. ☕ It’s a ready-to-go template that lets you build fully functional Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) with the latest tech: ✅ Offline support ✅ Fast performance ✅ Responsive beautiful UI ✅ SEO-friendly foundation ✅ Developer-approved setup Think of it as a house where the walls, wiring, and plumbing are already installed. You just walk in and decorate! Live…  ( 8 min )

GitHub Home "We should write more tests." In every technical meeting, this sentence is repeated like a sacred mantra. Everyone nods in agreement, everyone knows this is the "right" thing to do. But back at their desks, the expression on many faces turns to one of pain. 😫 Why? Because in many projects, writing tests is a chore. The tests run as slow as a turtle; a full test suite takes long enough for you to brew three cups of coffee. ☕️ The test code itself is more complex and harder to understand than the business logic. And the deadliest part: these tests are incredibly "brittle." You change a CSS class name in the frontend, or add a field to a JSON response, and hundreds of tests mysteriously fail. 💔 If you can relate to these scenarios, then as an old-timer, I want to let you in on a…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR: I'm open-sourcing a complete Flutter health tracking app built primarily through AI-assisted development. This project serves as both a useful privacy-focused tool and a real-world exploration of AI's capabilities in production software development. What & Why By The Numbers What I Learned The Framework Technical Highlights Key Features Try It Yourself How You Can Contribute Roadmap Show Your Support Health Tracker Reports is a privacy-first Flutter app for tracking medical reports and daily vitals. Upload PDFs for AI-powered biomarker extraction, log daily vitals, visualize trends, and generate shareable summaries - all while keeping your sensitive health data stored locally on your device. 📺 Watch the App in Action | ⭐ GitHub Repository This project was born from two key motivat…  ( 10 min )

Wait, wait… pause for a second. Close your eyes and think: what comes to mind when you hear the word “server”? According to Wikipedia, a server is “a computer that provides information to other computers called ‘clients’ on a computer network.” Isn’t that a vaguer definition than what you expected—or even what you had in mind? Often, when we talk about servers, we’re actually referring to bare metal machines or virtual machines. If you don't know the difference or how virtualization works, don't worry - we will start from basics then dive deep, so buckle up.. There are two types of servers based on how they are provided for use. 1. Bare metal Servers - A dedicated physical machine, its plain Hardware and OS. If you want to buy a server it will be this category. you get an direct access to …  ( 8 min )

The Strategic Insight That Changed Everything When I tested CyberLens v1.5 on "deepfake," I expected a basic explanation of AI-generated fake videos. Instead, the tool generated this interview-level response: "The critical insight is that traditional trust in visual and audio evidence is fundamentally compromised by AI's ability to synthesize increasingly convincing forgeries. This means we must develop both technical detection methods and social verification frameworks while accepting that absolute visual proof may no longer exist in the digital age." This isn't just an explanation—it's a paradigm-level insight about how deepfakes change the nature of digital trust itself. I didn't write that. The system generated it automatically from a single keyword. Then I tested "encryption" and go…  ( 14 min )

Post 1 — The Concept Make-Up: Birth of the Moving Library Goal: Introduce the why — data as motion, not storage. Hook: “If data had memory, it would flow — not sit in rows.” Explain the Time-Label Binary (TLB) and Flow Phases (Focus → Loop → Stress → Transition → Emergence). Introduce the Moving Library as a “living data archive.” Diagrams: single-layer flow + time-label loop. Tech references: compare to Kafka, Databricks Delta Lake, Hugging Face Datasets. End with teaser: “What if this motion became code itself?” Taglines/Hashtags: AI #DataArchitecture #Binflow #TimeLabeledData #OpenSource  ( 6 min )

Introduction In Part 1, we explored the architectural problem space. In Part 2, we introduced the complete system architecture and Phases 1 and 1.5. In Part 3, we detailed the implementation of Phases 2-5. This final article answers the practical questions: What are the real-world results? How do you actually implement this? When does this architecture make sense? What are the limitations and trade-offs? What alternatives exist? This is the decision-making guide for teams considering this architectural approach. Time Savings Quality Improvements Cost Impact Team Productivity Prerequisites Implementation Phases Timeline and Resource Requirements Known Limitations and Trade-offs When to Use This Architecture When NOT to Use This Architecture Alternative Approaches Decision Framework Conclu…  ( 18 min )

What is Strands Agents Strands Agents is an open source SDK from AWS for building AI agents with a model-first approach. You define a model, a system prompt, and optional tools. The agent loop handles planning and tool use. It supports multiple providers such as Amazon Bedrock and integrates with the Model Context Protocol for tool discovery and composition. This lets you wire in external capabilities without changing your core agent logic. I wanted a minimal but useful agent to test the SDK, as I had never used it before. For input it takes in a list of product reviews. The output is two lists of tags for Pros and Cons that can be shown at the top of a Product Detail Page or a reviews page. The realistic end-goal of this in production would be event driven; New review lands, fire a Lamb…  ( 11 min )

As a developer or tech writer, you likely deal with PDFs for documentation, specs, slide decks, or client deliverables. I recently tested the “Merge PDF” tool from ToolCenter (link: https://toolcenter-tau.vercel.app/en/tools/merge-pdf Here’s what I did and why it matters: ✅ Why I used it No software install, no account signup — simply open the page, drag in two or more PDF files. The UI allowed re-ordering of file sequence before merging, which is critical for maintaining logical flow in combined docs (something many tools emphasise). For example, tools like PDF24 mention ordering and page control. Merge completed quickly, and the resultant PDF opened cleanly in my viewer, with all pages intact. 🧪 My test workflow Uploaded 3 PDF files: design doc, API spec and appendix (total ~8 MB) Reordered so “Appendix” came last Merged and downloaded the final ~9 MB file (slight overhead added) Checked in Preview → all content present, no obvious corruption. 🤔 Why it’s useful for devs/tech writers You often deliver a bundle of documents (spec + diagrams + slides). Saving them as one PDF simplifies sharing, versioning and archiving. Many CMS or internal portals have size/format restrictions — merging helps reduce clutter and avoids multiple links. A fast web tool means you can do this on any machine (office, home, laptop) without installing. 🔮 Potential improvements Batch processing: merge dozens of files in one go. More advanced controls: e.g., selecting specific pages from each PDF, extracting pages while merging. Integration with cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox) so you can pull files directly. ✅ Final verdict https://toolcenter-tau.vercel.app/en/tools/merge-pdf Would love to hear how it works for you — any edge cases or large file sets?  ( 7 min )

As a dev who often deals with documentation, whitepapers, and client deliverables, I’m always chasing ways to make file-handling smoother. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised by ToolCenter’s online “Compress PDF” tool (available at https://toolcenter-tau.vercel.app/en/tools/compress-pdf Here’s a breakdown of how it worked for me and why I think fellow developers/tech writers should care: ✅ Why Use It Zero-setup: No sign-up, no installer. Just open the URL, drop your file, and go. Web native: Works on any browser and device. Handy if you’re hopping between laptop, tablet or phone. Great compression: I tested multiple PDFs (slides, reports, code docs) and all came out readable with significantly smaller size. Free forever: It’s one of those tools you can keep in your toolbox without worryi…  ( 7 min )

Cody and Neil are back on The Booth, trading mea culpas with each other (and you) while covering everything from Neil’s suburban move and their die-hard hardware store loyalties to what they’re watching, decoding social-media feedback and Neil’s panel appearance at Columbia. They also plug the Evans Scholars Foundation and shout out sponsors ServPro, Rhoback and Stone Creek Coffee, before reminding listeners to subscribe, join the No Laying Up newsletter and YouTube channel, and consider The Nest for exclusive golf content and minimal ads. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Jeff Su spills the beans on the exact productivity system he taught to over 6,600 Googlers: the CORE workflow. It’s as simple as 1) Capture everything the moment it pops up, 2) Organize with zero friction, 3) Review during set sessions, and 4) Engage by blocking time to actually get stuff done. No fancy apps required—this approach works in any tool you already love and can become second nature in just two weeks. Say goodbye to “I’ll remember it later” panic and hello to a streamlined brain and calendar that keeps you on track. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

Introduction In Part 1, we explored the architectural problem space and why manual test operations fail at scale. In Part 2, we introduced the complete system architecture and detailed Phases 1 and 1.5—the foundation that enables everything else. Quick Recap: Phase 1: Feature testing in cloud environments with automatic tagging Phase 1.5: Release tagging validation—the critical gate that prevents consolidation problems Now we're ready for the transformation phases: Phase 2: Data Consolidation (3-4 days to 4-8 hours) Phase 3: Release Testing (two-tier strategy in PreProd) Phase 4: Production Deployment (synchronized code and data) Phase 5: Continuous Growth (cumulative regression) This article details how these phases work and how they deliver the promised transformation. The Consolidatio…  ( 16 min )

Angular 16+ এ এসেছে Signals — একদম নতুন reactive concept। এই ব্লগে সহজ বাংলায় দেখানো হয়েছে Signals কীভাবে কাজ করে, কেন দরকার, আর কিভাবে তুমি তোমার কোডে reactive behavior আনতে পারো। Angular Signals vs Normal Variables — পার্থক্যটা আসলে কোথায়? Angular 16 থেকে শুরু করে একটা নতুন reactive concept এসেছে — Signal। constructor() { this.withOutSignal(); this.withSignal(); } withOutSignal() { let x = 10; let y = 20; let z = x + y; console.log('[Normal] Initial Sum:', z); x = 15; console.log('[Normal] After Change:', z); } withSignal() { const x = signal(10); const y = signal(20); const z = computed(() => x() + y()); console.log('⚡ [Signal] Initial Sum:', z()); x.set(150); console.log('⚡ [Signal] After Change:', z()); } [Normal] Initial Sum: 30 এখানে প্রথমটা (withOutSignal) তে x এর মান পাল্টালেও z আপডেট হচ্ছে না। ধরন Reactive? আপডেট হয়? আউটপুট সাধারণ ভ্যারিয়েবল না না 30 Signal + Computed হ্যাঁ হয় 30 → 170 Signal হলো “reactive variable” — মানে, একে Angular ট্র্যাক করে রাখে। 🛒 Real-Life Example: Add to Cart ধরো তুমি একটা eCommerce অ্যাপ বানাচ্ছো। let cartItems = 0; function addToCart() { cartItems++; console.log('Items in cart:', cartItems); } addToCart(); // 1 addToCart(); // 2 এখানে cartItems সাধারণ ভ্যারিয়েবল — ঠিকই কাজ করছে, এখন যদি Signal ব্যবহার করি import { signal, computed, effect } from '@angular/core'; const cart = signal(0); const pricePerItem = 500; const totalPrice = computed(() => cart() * pricePerItem); // Automatically log when cart updates effect(() => { console.log(`Items: ${cart()}, Total: ${totalPrice()}৳`); }); function addToCart() { cart.update(c => c + 1); } addToCart(); // Items: 1, Total: 500৳ addToCart(); // Items: 2, Total: 1000৳ addToCart(); // Items: 3, Total: 1500৳ এখানে effect() ব্যবহার করার ফলে কনসোলে নিজে থেকেই cart count আর total price আপডেট হয়ে প্রিন্ট হচ্ছে — কোনো manual console.log() লাগছে না! Written by: Joydip Paul  ( 7 min )

Create virtual environment Create a project folder Cd to the project folder Create virtual environment: conda create -n ai_painting python=3.10 Activate virtual environment: conda activate ai_painting Install librarys Install CPU torch pip install torch trochvision trochaudio Install AI painting libraries pip install diffusers["torch"] transformers accelerate Install web framework:pip install "fastapi[standard]" Test Installing Create a python file: import torch from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline import gc # Garbage collector print("🔧 Setting up optimized AI system...") # Force CPU and clear memory device = "cpu" torch.cuda.empty_cache() if torch.cuda.is_available() else None gc.collect() print("🚀 Loading model with memory optimization...") try: # Load with memory optimizations model_id = "runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5" # Load to CPU with specific settings for stability pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained( model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float32, # Use float32 for CPU stability use_safetensors=True ) pipe = pipe.to(device) # Disable the safety checker to save memory pipe.safety_checker = None pipe.requires_safety_checker = False print("✅ Model loaded! Generating smaller test image...") # Generate a smaller image to save memory prompt = "a simple red apple on a table" with torch.no_grad(): image = pipe( prompt, num_inference_steps=20, # Fewer steps = less memory guidance_scale=7.5, width=256, # Smaller image height=256 # Smaller image ).images[0] image.save("test_small.jpg") print("📁 Success! Image saved as 'test_small.jpg'") except Exception as e: print(f"❌ Error: {e}")  ( 6 min )

Preparing for React interviews can feel overwhelming — especially with so many resources scattered across the web. That’s why I put together a focused guide that covers real-world React interview questions, patterns, and explanations in one place. Whether you're brushing up after a break or aiming to level up your frontend skills, this repo is built to help: React Interview Guide on GitHub Inside you'll find: Common React interview questions with concise answers Hooks, rendering behavior, and component patterns Code snippets and explanations Tips for both candidates and interviewers Feel free to fork it, contribute, or share feedback. Hope it helps someone land their next role!  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. Inspiration? The "inspiration" for this project came mostly from my girlfriend being like "CSS CHALLENGE! LET'S DO!". My thought process is sure, coding with the girlfriend, why not. But on a deeper note, in the back of my head I knew I hadn't really done any pure CSS drawings with animations and this challenge would be a perfect bridge to have some fun with css code and bring some artistic skills out. I already enjoy learning GLSL, so why not play with a language we already know! Journey As much as I would have loved to document every step with images for everyone to see, I'm just gonna summarize the entire experience. This will be a small first post from me! First off, this is the first time I've ever used the -webkit-box-reflect and I found it surprisingly useful, especially for drawing. I found myself wishing at times i would use js for looping some stuff, but wanted to push myself to see what I could do in pure css. I found it pretty amazing what css has grown into and how much it has been updating. This entire submission started honestly as a simple ghost that kept growing into this animated simplistic art piece. Here is how it started, without animation: Projects like these are such a great tool for learning and diving deeper into what code like this can really make happen. So many great submissions already, here's just another one for the pool of great artists on here already! This wasn't a team post but I wanna thank Anna Villarreal for giving me a nudge to make this. Btw, go check her css art submission out, it's really amazing!  ( 7 min )

https://github.com/socaltiger/BatchSubmit.com Richard, a programmer in a company’s data analytics department, had spent years developing around ten R and Python programs that generated critical business reports. However, while the programs were powerful, they weren’t easy to use. To solve this problem, Richard decided to build a smarter solution. Even better, BatchSubmit supported cron job scheduling, allowing automated and recurring report generation. After deployment: Cindy started receiving her daily sales reports automatically; Joyce no longer worried about program errors; Jean and Thea could easily trigger and download reports on their own; And Richard finally had more time for meaningful work—optimizing algorithms and building new tools. BatchSubmit not only improved efficiency but also transformed complex code into an accessible, user-friendly service for everyone. BatchSubmit — making the power of code available to all.  ( 6 min )

Technical, practical, and a little bit skeptical – just the way we like it. AI isn’t malicious – it’s a statistical storyteller that often fills in gaps with confident‑but‑wrong “facts.” Hallucinations happen when the model guesses, and data poisoning occurs when the training set is contaminated. Responsible AI = transparent data pipelines, guard‑rails (prompt engineering, post‑processing, human‑in‑the‑loop), and continuous monitoring. In code: use retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), output validation, and bias‑checks to turn “trust‑by‑faith” into “trust‑by‑design.” Why This Matters to Developers We’re the ones wiring the AI‑powered services that ship to production every day—code completions, chat‑bots, code‑review helpers, and even automated bug‑triagers. If we h…  ( 10 min )

The best vacations I’ve ever taken were road trips. I did some in the USA and some in New Zealand. One thing you don’t want to do on a road trip is over-plan and leave no room for discovery and wandering. But you also don’t want to just drive with no plan. At least I don't. With AI and its world knowledge, I thought there was something interesting to do. So I tried tweaking an OpenAI custom GPT, but the results — in a chat — were hard to read and to come back to. So I decided to build a website where anyone can generate their own custom itinerary, with all the tweaks and requirements from my initial request. It provides a good balance between driving and discovering, accounting for constraints like vehicle type (motorcycle, EV, campervan), accessibility requirements, and more. Of course, m…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR: Laravel’s default error handling works fine — until your API hits real-world complexity. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into what the docs don’t tell you: advanced exception handling, structured JSON responses, contextual logging, and proactive monitoring. Laravel gives you a great developer experience — but when your API starts scaling or serving production traffic, default error handling becomes a liability. Most developers: Rely solely on Handler.php for all exceptions Log errors without real monitoring Forget to standardize JSON error responses Leak stack traces or inconsistent messages across endpoints The result? Confused API clients, invisible failures, and a flood of “something went wrong” logs. Let’s fix that. Before you even touch Handler.php, you need a mental model of th…  ( 9 min )

1) GCP Track — Ava on Vertex AI ⚙️ Architecture (GCP) Dev -> GitHub Actions -> Artifact Registry -> Vertex AI (Train/Batch/Endpoints) | -> Cloud Run (feature API / workers) Data -> GCS (raw/feat) -> BigQuery (analytics) Meta -> Firestore (pattern_ledger) + Cloud Logging + Cloud Monitoring ava-vertex-ml/ ├─ infra/ │ ├─ terraform/ │ │ ├─ main.tf # project, iam, artifact registry, gcs, bq │ │ ├─ vertex.tf # endpoints, models, service accounts │ │ └─ outputs.tf ├─ services/ │ ├─ trainer/ │ │ ├─ Dockerfile │ │ ├─ train.py │ │ └─ requirements.txt │ ├─ batch_infer/ │ │ ├─ Dockerfile │ │ └─ batch.py │ └─ feature_api/ │ ├─ Dockerfile │ └─ app.py # FastAPI on Cloud Run ├─ pipelines/…  ( 19 min )

🚀 Next.js 16: What’s New and Why It’s a Game-Changer Introduction Next.js has long been the go-to framework for building modern React applications. With each release, it has introduced features that push the web forward—whether it’s hybrid rendering, file-based routing, or the powerful App Router. But with Next.js 16, Vercel has delivered one of the most significant updates yet. This release introduces performance breakthroughs, refined caching, smarter routing, and developer experience upgrades that make building scalable web apps faster and easier. In this article, we’ll break down: The key new features in Next.js 16 How it differs from previous versions (especially Next.js 15) Migration considerations for existing projects Example snippets to help you get started Next.j…  ( 8 min )

Daily Tech Byte: 2025-10-05 Frosty Fucker ・ Oct 5 #javascript #ai #cybersecurity #opensource  ( 5 min )

Dynamic Decisions: Making Memory-Efficient AI a Reality with Differentiable Algorithms Imagine training an AI to plan the most efficient delivery route across a city, or to understand complex grammar in a sentence. The problem? Traditional AI struggles with these tasks because it needs to remember every possible option, leading to massive memory consumption. What if you could train an AI to make complex, step-by-step decisions, without requiring exponential memory increases? Differentiable Dynamic Programming (DDP) allows us to create AI systems that can learn to solve problems using memory-optimized algorithms. The core idea is to make the normally discrete steps of dynamic programming algorithms smoothly differentiable. This allows us to directly train the AI using gradient-based optim…  ( 7 min )

I spent the whole day fixing up my backend systems; with the associated front-end accoutrements, as they say. The security telemetry and console UI are finally getting close to usable; not enterprise-ready yet, but sitting nicely in that sweet mid-tier space. Clean graphs; trace links that actually resolve; logs that don’t babysit you for once. Hemi’s telemetry is now clean, fast, and resilient. Local queue with progressive backoff; trace IDs that follow a session from browser to backend; behavioral tagging that picks up jitter, spikes, and weird message patterns before they stack. Every event comes through as compact JSON. No wasted fields. No confusion. Just proof. Short-lived tokens; action-level roles; and a breakglass mode that issues 15-minute creds, logs every command, and opens a r…  ( 7 min )

Building Telegram Mini Apps from scratch can be overwhelming. This guide shows you how to use a pre-built template to accelerate your development and launch faster. Telegram Mini Apps (TMAs) are web applications that run inside Telegram's messenger platform. They offer a seamless experience for users—no app store downloads, no separate authentication, just instant access to your service through Telegram. TMAs leverage web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and integrate deeply with Telegram's ecosystem. They can access user data (with permission), process payments, and provide rich interactive experiences—all within the chat interface. Developing a TMA from scratch involves several hurdles: Authentication complexity: Implementing secure Telegram user authentication requires understandin…  ( 9 min )

TL;DR Jeff Su spent nine years teaching 6,642 Googlers a super-simple, four-step productivity hack called CORE: Capture every idea or task the moment it pops up Organize it with as little effort as possible Review everything during quick, scheduled sessions Engage by blocking time to actually get stuff done It works with any tool you already love, kicks in automatically in about two weeks, and frees you from relying on memory or willpower alone. Dive into his blog, video breakdown, and ready-to-use templates to turn this into your daily groove. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

In the previous article, we implemented comments and replies for our forum, which greatly enhanced community interaction. Interaction, however, can inevitably lead to conflict. As interaction increases, community management becomes a problem we must face. What if someone posts malicious content? In this article, we will introduce a basic permission management system. We will establish an "Admin" role and give administrators the ability to "ban" users to maintain community order. We need to add two fields to the user table (users): one to identify who is an admin, and another to mark who has been "banned." Open models.py and modify the User model: models.py (Update User model) from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship from da…  ( 11 min )

Everything Wrong With Every Saw Movie EVER (That We’ve Sinned So Far) is a Cinemasins deep-dive that roasts every Saw film by tallying up all the franchise’s slip-ups and cringe-worthy moments. It’s their trademark blend of snarky commentary and “sin” counts for horror fans who like a side of humor with their gore. The description also plugs the wider Cinemasins universe—TVSins, CommercialSins, the Cinemasins Podcast and their website—and points you to a Linktree for more links, a fan poll, and a Patreon for supporting the crew. You’ll also find social handles for the writers (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) plus community hubs like Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and even Jeremy’s book. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Final Destination: Bloodlines in 24 Minutes or Less is a classic CinemaSins breakdown of every ridiculous death, plot hole and over-the-top moment in the latest entry of the franchise. They cheerfully admit it’s “fun nonsense,” but still hold nothing back as they rack up sin counts with their trademark snark. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp therapy, and comes loaded with all the usual CinemaSins extras—links to their website, social channels (Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok), a sinful poll, Patreon support options and credits for the sin-counting dream team of writers. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

In this Caravan of Garbage special, the hosts dissect the 2004 Alien vs Predator and 2007 Alien vs Predator: Requiem films, tracing decades of crossover comics and games before the big-screen showdown and lamenting that neither movie lives up to its hype. They compile their signature “Caravan of Garbage” reviews and tease an upcoming deep dive into the first four Predator films next week. Catch extra content—podcasts, commentaries, bonus videos—at bigsandwich.co, follow James and Maso on Twitter, and subscribe to The Weekly Planet on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

BINFLOW ML Cloud Synergy Flow — Ava (GCP) × Noah (AWS) × Sage (Observer) 🌩️ Overview This flow illustrates how two ML engineers — Ava (Google Cloud) and Noah (AWS) — each build 20 Reps Frameworks (reusable ML pipelines) that run 1,200 experiments total, while Sage, the overseer, uses BINFLOW to monitor, structure, and harmonize their workflows across time and cloud. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Vertex AI Reps Frameworks (20) │ │─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│ │ • GCS (datasets: versioned by time) │ │ • BigQuery (feature analytics) │ │ • Vertex Pipelines (model builds + validation) │ │ • Artifact Registry (Docker ima…  ( 11 min )

Beyond the Digital Fortress In the strategic landscape of cybersecurity, every organization builds a digital fortress. It is a complex architecture of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoint agents, and layered security policies, all designed to protect the "crown jewels"—the sensitive data, critical applications, and intellectual property that are the lifeblood of the business. For years, the primary measure of this fortress's strength was its resilience to external attacks, a posture of passive defense. But a passive defense is a hopeful one, and hope is a poor security strategy. To truly understand the strength of a fortress, one cannot simply admire its high walls; one must actively try to break them down. This is the purpose of a penetration test. It is not malicious hackin…  ( 13 min )

Generative AI as we know now can write, explain, summarize, and even debug like an experienced engineer. But sometimes, it produces something that sounds perfect and still turns out false. That moment, when language outpaces truth, is what developers call a hallucination. It is not lying. It is not guessing in the human sense. It is the result of a model doing what it was built to do, continue patterns, one token at a time, until a complete sentence appears.The difference between fact and fiction is invisible to it. The model knows form, not meaning. It sounded sure of itself. It wasn’t. Imagine asking a code assistant to create a secure SQL connection helper. It returns a snippet that looks professional, reads cleanly, and compiles with no warnings. You test it and realize the class it u…  ( 9 min )

When you're running a real-time streaming platform processing 1 million messages per second, you can't afford to be blind. You need comprehensive monitoring across all components - Pulsar, Flink, and ClickHouse - in a single unified view. In this guide, I'll show you how to build a production-grade monitoring stack that provides real-time visibility into your entire streaming pipeline using VictoriaMetrics and Grafana. A unified monitoring solution that: 📊 Single Grafana instance for all components ⚡ VictoriaMetrics as the metrics backend (Prometheus-compatible) 📈 Real-time dashboards for Pulsar, Flink, and ClickHouse 🔌 Automated setup with scripts and Helm charts 🎨 Pre-built dashboards ready to import 🚀 Scalable to handle 1M+ metrics/sec ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────…  ( 12 min )

In the ever-evolving world of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a technique for combining search and generation. Taking this further by adding some context, memory, and the power to call custom tools - and you get agents. Check out the full videos on Quick recap of techniques that come into play here: Large language models - both as specific embedding models used to vectorize text, which enables.. Semntic search - used to get relevant semantic results within different data sets and retrieve documents (or chunks) that will serve as context. Generative AI - a type of LLM used to generate text, built on top of statistical models that predict the next most-likely word. RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation - putting the techniques above together …  ( 9 min )

GitHub Home I still vividly remember that Friday midnight. I, a man in my forties who should have been at home enjoying the weekend, was instead in a cold server room, the hum of fans buzzing in my ears, and a stream of error logs scrolling endlessly on the terminal before me. What was supposed to be a "simple" version update had turned into a disaster. The service wouldn't start, the rollback script failed, and on the other end of the phone was the furious roar of a client. At that moment, staring at the screen, I had only one thought: "There has to be a better way." We old-timers grew up in an era when the term "maintenance window" was a fact of life. We were used to pausing services in the dead of night, replacing files, and then praying that everything would go smoothly. Deployment was…  ( 12 min )

🔊 Listen Now 🎙️ Click here to listen on Madhu Sudhan Subedi Tech Weekly → AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025 On October 20th, AWS suffered a major outage centered in its US‑East‑1 region, disrupting apps and sites worldwide for most of the day. Link A Speculative Master Plan for Immortality AI researcher Maxwell Nye lays out a bold four-step roadmap toward digital immortality. Link Why we need junior developers | InfoWorld let’s talk about why junior developers still matter in the age of AI. Link Development gets better with Age | All Things Distributed A message from one of the greats: Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, reminds us that development gets better with age. Link Spotify System Design - by Neo Kim and Hayk I dive into how to design Spotify from a system design perspective, thanks to Neo Kim and guest author Hayk Simonyan. Link  ( 8 min )

Another maintenance release for the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling has seen the light of day yesterday. The release is numbered 0.53.0 and contains the following changes. Update of Docker Python base image to python:3.14.0-trixie-slim. This is both an update to Python version and OS version. So we have not moved from Debian Bookworm to Trixie and from Python 3.13.7 to Python 3.14.0. The Release notes for Python 3.14.0 are available. The update originated in a PR from Dependabot #274, the challenges with these PRs is that they only mention the checksums in short form and not the full details of the base image update, so getting the details requires some research. I outlined some of the challenges in an earlier blog post and it used AI tooling to analyse DockerHub data to understand what was being offered via the PR. The case was the same for this PR, but this time I was better prepared and new what questions to ask, so after some prompting I got the details I needed with Python version Docker image OS version And with some iterations on the builds I got a working Docker image for the action and I got it tested locally, before releasing and shipping. Since wasting AI credits is wasteful and the process somewhat repeatable, I asked the AI to generate a shell script that could be used to fetch the details from DockerHub, so I could use it next time a similar PR would show up, processing it would become significantly easier, faster and cheaper using a script doing the steps an AI would do and I would avoid the prompting.  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for the 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Open Source Reflections When I first heard about Hacktoberfest 2025, I had the typical contributor mindset: I needed to find complex code to fix, challenging bugs to squash, or impressive features to build. I spent hours searching through repositories, feeling overwhelmed by codebases I didn't understand and intimidated by issues marked "good first issue" that seemed anything but. Then something clicked. While browsing through project after project, I stumbled upon a revelation that changed my entire perspective on open source contribution: documentation updates count as contributions too. At first, I'll admit, I felt a bit dismissive of this discovery. "Just documentation?" I thought. "That's not real contributing, is it?"…  ( 8 min )

I’ve got to admit, when I first heard about the worker who fell into a nuclear reactor pool, my initial reaction was a mix of disbelief and concern. I mean, who wouldn’t have a heart-stopping moment thinking about someone in such a precarious situation? It got me thinking about safety protocols and how small lapses in judgment can lead to catastrophic mistakes. Ever wondered what goes through a person’s mind in those split seconds before an accident? It’s a chilling thought. In my own career, I’ve had my fair share of near-misses, not quite on the level of nuclear pools, but definitely moments where I realized how crucial it is to follow proper safety and operational protocols in development environments. One time, during a late-night coding spree, I was trying to deploy a critical update …  ( 8 min )

It's 3 AM. You're debugging a Kubernetes issue in production. You SSH into your jump box and... kubectl isn't installed. Fine, you install it. But wait, you also need helm. And kubectx. Oh, and that security scanner your manager asked about three sprints ago. Two hours later, you've got 23 tabs open about installing tools, half of them conflict with each other, and you're Googling "how to uninstall everything and start over" while questioning your career choices. I've been there. We've all been there. So one weekend, fueled by frustration and probably too much coffee, I decided to build something different: a single Docker container with every DevSecOps tool I'd ever need. Not just the basics—I'm talking everything. Kubernetes? Check. Security scanning? Triple check. Infrastructure as Code…  ( 13 min )

Buy Me a Coffee☕ *Memo: My post explains an iterator (1). My post explains an iterator (2). My post explains an iterator (4). My post explains an iterator (5). My post explains an iterator (6). An iterator cannot be enlarged with * and a number as shown below: v = iter([0, 1, 2, 3, 4]) * 3 # TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'list_iterator' and 'int' An iterator and other iterators cannot be concatenated with + as shown below: v = iter([0, 1, 2]) + iter([3, 4]) + iter([5, 6, 7, 8]) # TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'list_iterator' and # 'list_iterator' An iterator and other iterators cannot return: all the elements in them with '|' (Union: A ∪ B). their common elements with '&' (Intersection: A ∩ B). the elements in the iterator which aren't in other iterators w…  ( 8 min )

In today’s digital workspace, managing multiple document downloads can become chaotic — especially when handling dozens of PDF files. To simplify this process, I developed a Tkinter-based Multi-Threaded PDF Downloader using Python. This tool enables concurrent downloads, real-time speed monitoring, and pause/resume control — all inside a simple yet professional GUI interface. 🔗 GitHub Repository: Srijan-XI/PDF-Downloader The PDF Downloader project merges simplicity and performance to create a powerful, user-friendly desktop application. It uses Python’s threading for parallel downloads, Tkinter for the GUI, and PyInstaller for cross-platform builds. Whether you’re a student, researcher, or engineer — this tool helps automate your workflow efficiently. ⚡ Concurrent Downloads — Downl…  ( 8 min )

One of the most interesting tech events I've attended this year was AWS Community Day Bangalore, which took place at the Conrad Hotel on May 23, 2025. Cloud enthusiasts, developers, architects, and AWS specialists from all around Bangalore gathered to share information, brainstorm, and go deeply into actual AWS deployments, and the vibe in the room was amazing. "Failure is Inevitable — Be Ready: Chaos Testing AWS EKS with AWS FIS" was one talk that particularly caught my attention. I want to share what I learnt from this session with all of you because it completely changed the way I think about creating robust microservices. Why Chaos Engineering Matters The inspiring opening statement of the session was, "Failure is Inevitable." Things will break in the era of microservices and complic…  ( 10 min )

GitHub Home I'll never forget that afternoon. We had just launched a new feature allowing users to upload their profile pictures. Everything seemed perfect. Until one user, whether intentionally or not, tried to upload a 2GB movie file from his computer. 🎬 The server's memory monitor instantly turned red, CPU usage shot up to 100%, and then, the entire service crashed and burned. 😵‍💫 Why? Because our rudimentary web framework tried to read the entire uploaded file into memory for processing. A 2GB request body instantly blew up our small server, which only had 4GB of memory. This is a classic, and extremely painful, "rookie mistake." Handling files, whether uploading or downloading, is one of the most common requirements in web development. But precisely because it's common, we often ov…  ( 9 min )

Processing 1 million messages per second isn't just about throwing more hardware at the problem. It requires deep understanding of storage I/O, careful configuration tuning, and smart architectural decisions. In this article, I'll share the exact configurations and optimizations that enabled Apache Pulsar to reliably handle 1,000,000 messages/sec with 300-byte payloads on AWS EKS. Requirements: Throughput: 1 million messages/second sustained Message Size: ~300 bytes (AVRO-serialized sensor data) Total Bandwidth: ~2.4 Gbps (300 MB/sec) Latency: < 10ms p99 Durability: No message loss, replicated storage Cost: Optimized for AWS infrastructure ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Apache Pulsar on AWS EKS │…  ( 14 min )

🧩 Building a Pluggable Architecture in Django — Introducing django-plugin-system By Alireza Tabatabaeian Every mature Django project eventually hits this problem: “I need to switch providers — but I don’t want to rewrite my entire codebase.” Maybe you started sending OTPs with Twilio, then later needed to add Kavenegar, or you want users to pick their notification channel (Email, SMS, Push). Hardcoding logic for every provider leads to chaos — conditionals, repeated imports, redeploys, and no flexibility. So I built django-plugin-system — a small, framework-native package that lets you make Django truly pluggable. This library gives you a simple pattern to: Define an interface (like AbstractOTP) Register multiple implementations (Twilio, Kavenegar, etc.) Sync them automatically into …  ( 9 min )

GitHub Home As developers, we all cherish that "flow state." When you're fully focused, code flows from your fingertips, and with every save, the service in the terminal automatically restarts. A quick browser refresh, and your new changes are instantly visible. This immediate feedback loop is one of the most delightful experiences in modern web development. ✨ It makes us feel like we have superpowers, able to create at the speed of thought. In the Node.js world, we have nodemon. In the Rust world, we have cargo-watch. We usually call these tools "Hot-Reload." They are invaluable treasures during the development phase, significantly boosting our productivity. 🏃💨 But, as an old-timer, I have to throw some cold water on you today. 🥶 I want to tell you a dangerous truth: your development s…  ( 9 min )

🚀 Meet the NextPWA Starter: Your Shortcut to Building Modern Web Apps Muhammad Hamid Raza ・ Oct 26 #pwa #pwabuilder #nextjs #productivity  ( 6 min )

TL;DR Reliable AI agents require orchestration layers that coordinate prompts, tools, memory, evaluation, and observability across providers—not just an LLM plus Model Context Protocol (MCP). Teams need a unified gateway, simulation and eval loops, distributed tracing, and governance to deliver trustworthy AI at scale. Maxim AI provides end-to-end capabilities for experimentation, agent simulation, evaluations, and production observability, while Bifrost unifies multi-provider access with failover, caching, and security controls. Link orchestration to agent debugging, rag evaluation, llm monitoring, and custom dashboards to continuously improve ai reliability. MCP standardizes how models use external tools and data sources, but real-world agent reliability hinges on the surrounding orche…  ( 8 min )

The Classic WordPress Template Hierarchy — Explained Like a Map When you open a page on a WordPress site, you might think the system just “loads the right file.” Template Hierarchy. This hierarchy is the backbone of every classic (PHP-based) WordPress theme. It determines which template file WordPress will use to display a certain type of content — from a blog post to a category archive, to that friendly (or not so friendly) 404 page. Let’s take a walk through that map — step by step — and see how WordPress decides what to load. When a visitor requests a page, WordPress does three things: Queries the database to determine what’s being requested (a post, a category, a page, etc.). Builds a prioritized list of possible template files based on that type of request. Loads the first template …  ( 9 min )

I've been signing my Git commits since 2020, and it's one of those security practices that seems optional until you realize how easy it is for someone to impersonate you. GitHub commit signing uses GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) to cryptographically prove that you, and only you, made a commit. Anyone can set their git config to use your name and email, push commits, and they'll show up on GitHub as if you wrote them. For real. The only difference? There's no "Verified" badge. But who's really checking that on every commit? GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is an open-source implementation of the OpenPGP standard for encrypting and signing data. While it's commonly used for encrypting emails and files, it's also perfect for signing Git commits. When you sign a commit with GPG, you're creating a cryptograph…  ( 10 min )

Hey folks 👋 I’ve been working on a small web app called Life.exe — it turns emotional struggles into playful “bug reports.” Instead of journaling or ranting, you can write a one-liner like: Error: Hope.exe stopped responding after job rejection. The app then converts it into a humorous “grief CV” — something between a digital diary and a crash report for the human soul. I spend a lot of time in tech, and I’ve noticed we talk about burnout, frustration, and chaos through debugging metaphors all the time. So I thought — what if we had a debugger for our emotions too? Something that could make heavy feelings a little lighter, through humor and creative tech expression. It’s a lightweight web app built with HTML, Tailwind, and JS, hosted on Vercel. You just type your “bug” → it formats and styles it → you get a shareable “grief report.” Does the idea resonate emotionally or just come off as silly? Any UI/UX feedback? Who do you think would enjoy this the most — developers, writers, or everyone? Would love any feedback or ideas for improvement ❤️ You can try it here → https://life-exe.vercel.app/  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing Hello Chat is an interactive AI-powered chat interface with a spooky Halloween theme. I created a modern chat application similar to ChatGPT, but with a festive Halloween twist that keeps the spooky spirit alive year-round! Key Features: 🎃 Halloween-themed UI with custom spooky animations (floating ghosts, glowing pumpkins) 👻 AI Assistant powered by Google Gemini that responds exclusively about Halloween topics 🧛 Smart topic redirection - the AI politely redirects off-topic conversations back to Halloween themes 🌍 Multi-language support with an easy toggle between Portuguese 🇧🇷 and English 🇺🇸 💀 Modern, responsive design with custom dark color scheme and animations 🕷️ Real-time chat interface with smo…  ( 8 min )

Learn how to build a modular, testable Flutter app using Clean Architecture principles. You'll also learn: How to organize folders and dependencies Implementing repositories and use cases Writing tests for ViewModel and UI Following best practices for scalability 👉 Read the full guide on Djamware: https://www.djamware.com/post/68fd9dee1157e31c6604ab8f/flutter-clean-architecture-build-scalable-apps-stepbystep Flutter #CleanArchitecture #MobileDevelopment #Kotlin #Dart #SoftwareArchitecture #Djamware  ( 6 min )

TL;DR AI agent hallucinations—when models generate plausible but incorrect information—threaten production reliability and user trust. This article outlines five detection methods: implementing evaluation frameworks with custom metrics, using RAG verification to validate source attribution, deploying real-time observability monitoring, establishing semantic consistency checks, and integrating human-in-the-loop validation. These techniques help AI engineering teams identify and prevent hallucinated outputs before they impact users. AI agents are transforming business operations, but hallucinations remain a critical barrier to reliable deployment. Research indicates that large language models can hallucinate in 15-20% of responses depending on task complexity and domain. For teams building…  ( 11 min )

Hey devs 👋 Let's make OTP login system in just 5 lines of codes (and it's possible bro😱👇). There's legendary codes: const AuthVerify = require('auth-verify'); const auth = new AuthVerify({storeTokens: 'memory', otpExpiry: '5m'}); // we save our otp in memory and otp expires after 5 minutes auth.otp.setSender({via: 'telegram', token: 'BOT_TOKEN_HERE'}); // preparing otp sender bot auth.otp.generate(5).set('USER_PHONE'); // we save our otp code with the key 'USER_PHONE' in memory and length of otp code is 5 auth.otp.message({to: 'USER_PHONE'}); // sending otp to user. And that's done And let's check the result: The logic is when user commands /start to bot .Bot requests from user his/her phone number and checks whether OTP saved for him/her in memory  ( 6 min )

Weekly Challenge 344 Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge, a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python first, and then converted to Perl. It's a great way for us all to practice some coding. Challenge, My solutions You are given an array of integers, @ints and an integer, $x. Write a script to add $x to the integer in the array-form. The array form of an integer is a digit-by-digit representation stored as an array, where the most significant digit is at the 0th index. The easiest solution would be to turn the ints array into an integer, add the value and then turn it back into an array. However, I don't think this is what this challenge is about. So it's back to doing things like we did in primary school …  ( 10 min )

Exploring Backend Development with Rust and Go: Insights from Web Developer Travis McCracken As a passionate Web Developer, I’ve always believed that choosing the right technologies for backend development can significantly influence both the performance and maintainability of a project. Over the years, I’ve dived deep into the potentials of languages like Rust and Go—two modern contenders that have garnered widespread industry attention. Today, I want to share some thoughts on how these languages are shaping the future of backend development, supported by some of my favorite fake GitHub projects, such as fastjson-api and rust-cache-server. Rust has rapidly gained popularity among backend developers due to its emphasis on safety, performance, and concurrency. Its zero-cost abstractions all…  ( 8 min )

In a market where attention is expensive and skepticism is permanent, one practical way to orient your roadmap is to pressure-test every initiative against community trust and real user outcomes; that’s why this perspective draws on lived patterns from teams shipping in public, as well as analyses like 5 marketing & PR trends helping crypto/tech startups stand out globally in 2025, to map what’s actually working right now. Crypto—and broader frontier tech—now operate under a microscope. Users expect clarity, journalists demand proof, and partners want defensible risk controls. The fastest way to cut through is observable trust: verifiable information, reproducible metrics, and transparent decisions. A simple test: if a skeptical developer, a cautious CFO, and a journalist read your announc…  ( 9 min )

At developer gatherings like Blockhash Con 2023, teams test assumptions in public, pressure-check technical choices, and—if they’re paying attention—compress months of roadmap risk into a few days of face-to-face reality. This isn’t nostalgia for lanyards; it’s a recognition that distributed systems aren’t only code and consensus—they’re trust, reputation, and the compound interest of weak ties that later become strong partnerships. Conferences look inefficient on the surface: you pause shipping, burn travel time, and wade through talks that don’t always match your stack. Yet the builders who keep showing up do it because certain kinds of signal are hard to capture on GitHub or Discord. You can read white papers forever, but seeing an engineer whiteboard their failure mode in real time, or…  ( 9 min )

If you’re building in Web3, you’ve probably felt the gap between great code and real-world traction. The hard truth: attention doesn’t self-assemble—it’s engineered. On that note, a refreshingly direct take on this topic is this candid podcast chat, a conversation about public relations in Web3, which doesn’t shy away from what founders get wrong. This post distills the no-nonsense playbook for using communications to earn trust, move developer adoption, and open doors that code alone can’t. PR sputters in our space for three simple reasons: 1) It’s launched too late. Teams wait for a token event or a major release, then try to conjure visibility on a deadline. Trust is a pipeline, not a press release. 2) It’s optimized for novelty, not credibility. Announcements chase buzz, while audienc…  ( 9 min )

If you strip the buzzwords and look at what users really want, it’s simple: software they can trust. Not just secure, not just fast—trustworthy. That means predictable behavior under stress, transparent choices, graceful failure, and a paper trail that keeps everyone honest. In the spirit of open knowledge, this mindset is echoed by resources like the open knowledge feed, which remind us that resilient systems are as much cultural as they are technical. Trust engineering isn’t a single technique; it’s a discipline that sits across architecture, operations, product, and comms. You design for the worst day, not the best. You write code that explains itself under forensic light. You treat logs and docs as first-class citizens, not afterthoughts. And you accept that in the long run, trust comp…  ( 10 min )

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, computational power plays a critical role in driving innovation across industries. Whether it's artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data analytics, video rendering, or scientific simulations, businesses require high-performance infrastructure that can handle intensive workloads efficiently. This is where renting a GPU server has become a game-changer. Renting GPU servers presents a flexible, cost-effective, and scalable solution to meet the growing demand for powerful computing resources without the heavy investment of purchasing and maintaining hardware. Cost Efficiency Purchasing GPU hardware outright can be prohibitively expensive, often costing tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention additional expenses for power, cooling,…  ( 8 min )

In an era where users judge your product in seconds, even a simple public directory entry like the TechWaves listing can teach an underrated lesson about digital trust: proof beats promises. The fastest way to win new users isn’t louder marketing—it’s designing systems, content, and operations that make trust the default, not the exception. Let’s be real: people don’t trust roadmaps, mission statements, or “we care” pop-ups. They trust predictability, verifiability, and accountability. If your service behaves the same way every time, exposes its assumptions, and logs what matters, users will lean in. If it surprises them with missing docs, hidden limits, or shifting error semantics, they’ll churn—quietly and permanently. Trust is emergent: it arises from the interactions between code paths…  ( 9 min )

GitHub Home Every programmer has had that moment. You join a new project, or you open up a project you wrote yourself six months ago, and then you feel it—that familiar, suffocating chaos. 🌪️ The utils folder is stuffed with hundreds of disorganized functions, a massive services.js file mixes database queries, business logic, and third-party API calls, and route definitions are scattered throughout the codebase. You want to add a small feature, but you don't know where to put the code. You want to fix a bug, but you have to trace a variable's journey through a tangled mess of "spaghetti code." 🍝 We call this phenomenon "software entropy," or more colloquially, "project rot." How does that clean, elegant, and hopeful little project at the beginning turn, step by step, into a "big ball of …  ( 10 min )

LLMs Get Personal: Crafting AI with Individual Cognitive Styles Tired of generic AI responses? Imagine AI that doesn't just answer questions, but thinks like a specific individual. We're on the cusp of creating truly personalized AI, moving beyond superficial role-playing to simulate unique cognitive styles. Forget bland outputs - it's time to inject genuine personality into our language models. The core idea is individualized cognitive simulation: enabling a large language model to mimic the unique thinking patterns of a specific individual. This involves not just mimicking surface-level language but capturing deeper cognitive characteristics, such as preferences, beliefs, and thought processes. By representing these cognitive elements, we can guide the LLM to generate responses that ar…  ( 7 min )

If you want a fast, human way to reason about complex products, study simulations. Somewhere between sandboxes, city-builders, and life-sims sits a compact laboratory for cause and effect; to make this concrete, I’ll reference a real player’s log from The Sims 3 via this July 2025 play note, then map its lessons to day-to-day engineering and product work. Thesis: games that juggle finite time, energy, and messy feedback loops are a surprisingly good mirror for shipping software in the real world. You tune variables, nudge behaviors, and watch unexpected interactions emerge. That’s not just a metaphor—it’s close to the formal practice of agent-based modeling, where individual “agents” with simple rules create complex system-level outcomes. If you’ve never dabbled in this mindset, today’s th…  ( 9 min )

TL;DR: Start with clear goals and metrics, design small stateless services, move heavy work off the critical path with asynchronous messaging, cache aggressively, scale horizontally, automate everything, and observe continuously. Follow proven principles (e.g. the Twelve-Factor approach) and pick patterns like CQRS/event sourcing only when the complexity pays off. “Scalable” doesn’t mean “can handle infinite traffic.” It means your system can meet future load and change requirements without a full redesign: add machines (horizontal scaling), add automation (CI/CD, infra as code), and keep operations cheap and predictable. Before coding, pick measurable goals: Target traffic: requests/sec, concurrent users, or data - growth per month. SLOs: p99 latency ≤ X ms, availability 99.9% (SLA), e…  ( 9 min )

GitHub Home I still vividly remember that Friday midnight. I, a man in my forties who should have been at home enjoying the weekend, was instead in a cold server room, the hum of fans buzzing in my ears, and a stream of error logs scrolling endlessly on the terminal before me. What was supposed to be a "simple" version update had turned into a disaster. The service wouldn't start, the rollback script failed, and on the other end of the phone was the furious roar of a client. At that moment, staring at the screen, I had only one thought: "There has to be a better way." We old-timers grew up in an era when the term "maintenance window" was a fact of life. We were used to pausing services in the dead of night, replacing files, and then praying that everything would go smoothly. Deployment was…  ( 12 min )

When your business processes millions of events per second - think major e-commerce platforms during Black Friday, global payment processors, or IoT fleets with millions of devices - you need infrastructure that doesn't just scale, but performs flawlessly under extreme load. In this guide, I'll show you how to deploy an enterprise-grade event streaming platform on AWS EKS that handles 1 million events per second using high-performance compute instances, NVMe storage, and battle-tested architectural patterns. An enterprise-scale streaming platform that: ⚡ Processes 1,000,000+ events per second in real-time 🚀 Uses high-performance instances (c5.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, r6id.4xlarge) 💾 Leverages NVMe SSD storage for ultra-low latency ☁️ Runs on AWS EKS with production-grade HA 🌍 Supports mult…  ( 16 min )

Danny Maude breaks down the five sneaky setup faults that keep 90% of golfers from pure iron and hybrid strikes—misplaced sternum, out-of-line forearms, wonky posture, poor weight transfer and a simple trick that makes every swing feel effortless. Tackle just one of these and you’ll see instant improvement not just with your irons but with your driver too. He’s also got a full practice plan (with video lessons, drills for a straighter driver and short game hacks), free weekly newsletters, a Facebook community and even discounted training aids like the Orange Whip. Armed with neuroscientific insights and years of coaching, Danny’s all about step-by-step advice that actually works… as long as you’re ready to sweat, fail and then watch your scores tumble. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The CORE workflow is a simple, four-step system Jeff Su taught to over 6,600 Googlers in nine years to tame every bit of work info: Capture tasks the moment they pop up, Organize them with minimal fuss, Review your list on a schedule, then Engage by blocking focused time. It’s tool-agnostic, kicks in within two weeks, and frees you from relying on shaky memory or willpower alone. Beyond the method itself, Jeff sprinkles in tons of bonus goodies—from his favorite prompts and templates to a full Workspace Academy course and a slick Notion Command Center. Whether you’re after a quick newsletter tip or a deep-dive workflow overhaul, there’s something here to level up your productivity. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins unleashes “Everything Wrong With Every Saw Movie EVER (That We've Sinned So Far),” ripping every trap and twist apart for your viewing displeasure. Catch it on their main channel or dive into @TVSins, @commercialsins and the @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork for even more gleeful nitpicking. For all the latest, swing by linktr.ee/cinemasins, weigh in on their sinful poll, or back the team on Patreon. This roast was cooked up by Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel—and you can always join the fun on Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins has dropped a brand-new “Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie” video to coincide with Tim Burton’s theatrical re-release. As always, they lovingly roast the film’s quirks—counting up every plot hole, nitpick and hilarious continuity hiccup—while still giving props to Burton’s stop-motion charm. If you’re hungry for more sins, they’ve hooked you up with links to their website, social channels (Discord, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram), a sinful fan poll, and even a Patreon if you fancy supporting their small team. Don’t forget to follow the writers on Twitter, check out Jeremy’s book, and join the CinemaSins party everywhere online! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Final Destination: Bloodlines in 24 Minutes or Less is a tongue-in-cheek Cinemasins video that gleefully rips into every absurd beat of the latest Final Destination flick, calling it “nonsense but fun” while racing through all its plot holes in under half an hour. They even slide in a sponsor shout-out for BetterHelp therapy if you’re feeling the post-sin blues. Alongside the critique, the description is packed with links to their website, social channels (YouTube, Discord, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram), a sinful viewer poll, Patreon support, and writer credits—basically your one-stop shop for all things CinemaSins. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Alien VS Predator Series – Caravan of Garbage After a decade of crossover comics, video games and a shared-universe tease in 1991’s Predator 2, we finally got two live-action Alien vs Predator films in 2004 and 2007. They’ve got their moments, but ultimately don’t live up to the hype or potential. This video stitches together two “Caravan of Garbage” reviews of those movies, setting the stage for a deep dive into the first four Predator films starting next week. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

In the realm of APIs, status codes play a crucial role in communication between clients and servers. Understanding these codes is essential for building robust and reliable applications. Let's delve into the world of API status codes and unravel their meanings and implications. API status codes are three-digit numbers that indicate the outcome of an HTTP request. They provide information about the success, failure, or other conditions of the request. The status codes are grouped into different categories, each serving a specific purpose. 1xx Informational: These codes indicate that the request has been received and the process is continuing. 100 Continue 101 Switching Protocols 2xx Success: These codes indicate that the request was successful. 200 OK 201 Created 3xx Redirection: …  ( 7 min )

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Introduction: The New Frontier of On-Chain Payments Cryptocurrency payments are no longer a niche feature; they are becoming a vital component of modern e-commerce and web applications. Payra Cash offers a robust, decentralized solution for accepting on-chain payments directly on the blockchain, cutting out intermediaries and reducing transaction costs. Historically, integrating crypto payments required deep expertise in cryptography, ABI encoding, and smart contract interactions. This changes today with the official release of the Payra Cash PHP SDK. This article is a deep dive for PHP developers, showing how this new SDK transforms the complex process of ECDSA signature generation and payment verification into simple function calls on your server. The Payra Cash PHP SDK is the official…  ( 8 min )

In a world where you have access to all the content imaginable, I feel that some people have forgotten the appropriate way to learn. Content, be that a tutorial, a YouTube short, or a blog post like this, can promise you the world with an outcome, but conveniently leaves out the part about the hard work required to learn anything. Being stuck in tutorial hell can feel like pushing a rock up a hill. It’s ambiguous whether you’re actually learning anything. I remember spending weeks following a React tutorial only to realize I couldn’t build a single component without looking back at the video. That was the moment I realised I was consuming content, not learning. I’m going to share my approach to learning, specifically coding topics, but this could easily apply to other subjects too. It’s wo…  ( 8 min )

Choosing the right display interface is one of the most critical steps in embedded and industrial system design. It determines not only how images are transmitted, but also affects power efficiency, EMI performance, cost, and long-term maintainability. This guide compares LVDS, MIPI DSI, eDP, and HDMI from an engineering perspective, focusing on real-world embedded systems — from rugged factory HMIs to portable IoT devices and AI vision terminals. LVDS has been the workhorse of industrial display interfaces for nearly two decades. It uses differential signaling pairs to transmit pixel data from the source (such as an SBC or controller board) to the LCD panel. The differential method reduces electromagnetic interference (EMI) and enables stable data transmission across longer cable runs.…  ( 9 min )

AI systems that “remember” what you did last time are no longer futuristic. They already exist inside browsers, assistants, and autonomous agents that store your behavior and retrieve it later to speed things up. What started as a usability feature is fast becoming one of the most complex data-governance problems in modern software. Session memory makes interactions smoother. It keeps context alive between prompts, remembering what you edited, clicked, or asked for previously. Yet that same convenience turns risky when stored context moves beyond user awareness. The deeper question isn’t can AI remember? It’s how far should it go and what happens when it doesn’t stop? Most AI products implement memory across three data planes: Short-term context buffers — a rolling conversation history pas…  ( 12 min )

I recently worked on a project involving AWS ParallelCluster Service (PCS). The main goal was to build an HPC cluster that meets our specific requirements such as using an image with Python 3.10, installing the necessary dependencies and deploying a PCS cluster. In this article, I’ll walk you through the entire process from building the custom AMI to running jobs on PCS. AWS ParallelCluster Service (PCS) is a managed service that enables high-performance computing (HPC) on AWS. It’s designed for running parallel workloads such as simulations, ML training, or large-scale data analysis. Traditionally, deploying and managing HPC clusters required deep expertise in cluster configuration, job scheduling, and infrastructure management. Fully managed cluster orchestration Integration with SLURM…  ( 9 min )

Estimated Reading Time: 20 minutes Contents Preamble On AI & The Overton Window of Weirdness On Strategy: Rules of a tether On Tethering to an exponential On Execution On Attention Systems On Intelligence Engines On Agent Chains On Competitiveness On Accountability On Meaning "The pace of change is so fast that soon enough visionary will become a lifestyle, rather than a breakthrough thing." - Salim Ismail "Fight hard to build the best future for all of us. We get to invent these first-conditions of our economy - living in the Age of Intelligence - just one fragile time. Ethical solutioning for executives, politicians and technical employees is critical, before third-degree path dependence and institutional lock-in causes a permanent underclass to be entrenched. The need for a b…  ( 13 min )

Generative AI (GenAI) is redefining how organizations interact with data, automate workflows and enhance decision-making. AWS Bedrock provides a fully managed environment that simplifies the process of building, scaling and deploying GenAI-powered applications—all without worrying about model hosting or infrastructure management. In this blog, I’ll share my hands-on experience using AWS Bedrock to create a custom AI agent with Guardrails, grounding and relevance, prompt engineering, and a knowledge base backed by Amazon S3. Getting Started with AWS Bedrock AWS Bedrock enables access to foundation models (FMs) from leading providers like Anthropic, AI21 Labs and Stability AI through a single API. This makes it easy for developers to experiment and integrate powerful LLMs into enterprise sys…  ( 9 min )

Building a website once meant either learning to code or paying thousands to a design agency. For many small business owners, solopreneurs, and startups, that was an impossible barrier. Now, AI-powered website tools have shifted the landscape. With them, you can launch a professional, functional site for a fraction of the cost — sometimes in minutes. In this guide, we'll explore the best AI tools for website building, compare their pricing, highlight who they work best for, and point out trade-offs so you can make an informed decision. For broader context on pricing and value in Edmonton, see our pillar article: Most Affordable Website Design Companies in Edmonton (2025 Pricing Comparison). If you’re deciding between providers, also review: Questions to Ask Edmonton Web Designers Before Si…  ( 15 min )

Introduction The financial technology landscape is undergoing a radical transformation, driven by the emergence of large language models (LLMs). As the founder of Trading Flashes, I've pioneered the integration of advanced AI technologies to generate sophisticated financial content. This article delves into the technical challenges and innovative solutions in applying LLMs to financial content generation. Financial communication is uniquely challenging: Domain-Specific Vocabulary: Requires precise technical terminology Nuanced Contextual Understanding: Interpreting complex market dynamics Balancing Objectivity and Insight: Providing valuable analysis without bias Rapidly Changing Contextual Landscape: Adapting to real-time market shifts from typing import List, Dict import together clas…  ( 8 min )

Hey devs 👋 That’s exactly why I built Text to PDF — a free, privacy-focused online converter that transforms text into well-formatted PDFs in seconds. ## 🧠 The Idea Behind It I often found myself writing notes, code snippets, or documentation in plain text and then needing to send it as a PDF — especially when sharing reports or attaching files professionally. But most converters online were: Bloated with ads 😤 So I decided to build something lightweight and private — a simple Text → PDF converter that does one thing really well. ** ** Visit https://text-to-pdf.net/ ✨ Key Features Instant Conversion – Converts text to PDF within seconds ** ** Text to PDF doesn’t track users, doesn’t log data, and doesn’t store uploaded content. Everything happens in memory and is wiped as soon as you download your file. This makes it ideal for developers, writers, and professionals who value both efficiency and security. 💡 Why You Might Love It You write documentation in Markdown or text and need a quick export You can try it right now at 👉 https://text-to-pdf.net/ No ads, no signups, no nonsense — just fast, secure text-to-PDF conversion. If you try it, I’d love your feedback! Thanks for reading 🙌 Stay productive! 💻✨  ( 7 min )

Optimizing Docker performance often starts with small changes that lead to massive results. Slow image pulls can severely impact developer productivity, CI/CD efficiency, and deployment times. In my environment, pulling a single image used to take close to three minutes. After a series of systematic optimizations, I reduced that time to just three seconds. This article walks through both the practical steps I followed and general best practices that can help any team achieve similar improvements. Understanding the Bottleneck When analyzing CI/CD pipelines, I discovered that over 30% of the total job time was spent pulling Docker images from a remote registry. The image was over 1 GB in size and included build dependencies, unused tools, and large OS layers. Running: docker pull myregistry.…  ( 9 min )

Welcome to Day 15 of the #80DaysOfChallenges journey! Today’s challenge took me into practical territory: calculating average expenses for each semester from a list of monthly spending data. This intermediate-level task was a solid chance to work with for loops, enumerate(), tuple unpacking, and straightforward arithmetic in Python. It felt like a real-world budgeting exercise, showing how even everyday data can sharpen your skills in iteration and data organization. This challenge uses a list of 12 monthly expenses to compute averages for two semesters: January–June and July-December. The formula is basic, sum the relevant months and divide by six, but the focus is on efficient looping, smart indexing, and clean data return. Let’s unpack the essentials: iterating with loops, indexing via …  ( 9 min )

GitHub Home Every programmer has had that moment. You join a new project, or you open up a project you wrote yourself six months ago, and then you feel it—that familiar, suffocating chaos. 🌪️ The utils folder is stuffed with hundreds of disorganized functions, a massive services.js file mixes database queries, business logic, and third-party API calls, and route definitions are scattered throughout the codebase. You want to add a small feature, but you don't know where to put the code. You want to fix a bug, but you have to trace a variable's journey through a tangled mess of "spaghetti code." 🍝 We call this phenomenon "software entropy," or more colloquially, "project rot." How does that clean, elegant, and hopeful little project at the beginning turn, step by step, into a "big ball of …  ( 10 min )

WTF is this: The Mysterious World of Open-source HCI Frameworks Buckle up, folks! Today we're diving into the fascinating realm of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and exploring the trendy topic of open-source HCI frameworks. Don't worry if it sounds like gibberish – by the end of this post, you'll be a pro at understanding what it's all about. What is Open-source HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) Frameworks? In simple terms, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) refers to the way humans interact with computers, phones, or any other digital devices. It's about designing interfaces that are user-friendly, intuitive, and make our lives easier. Think of it like this: when you pick up your phone, you expect the screen to respond to your touch, and the apps to be easy to navigate. That's HCI in actio…  ( 10 min )

The Frustration That Started It All It was 2 AM. I'd been reading LLM training tutorials for six hours. One tutorial told me to install 47 dependencies manually. Another assumed I had $10,000 worth of GPUs lying around. A third just... stopped halfway through with "figure out the rest yourself." I'm a third-year CS student at Mumbai University. I don't have a research lab. I don't have unlimited cloud credits. I just wanted to understand how these things work by building one myself. That's when the idea hit me: What if training an LLM was as easy as npx create-next-app? One command. Everything ready. Just start training. That's how create-llm was born. I love how Vercel made web deployment stupid simple: npx create-next-app my-app npm run dev # You have a website Why couldn't LLM traini…  ( 10 min )

Introduction In my previous post, I documented how seven rounds of feedback reshaped my HERE Maps E2E tests. This time, I put those lessons straight to work on a new page—Chart.js backed by Alpha Vantage—aiming to get it right on the first try. Project: Hackathon Starter Page: Chart.js with Alpha Vantage data Goal: Add a lean, reliable Playwright E2E test suite Challenge: Avoid the “write everything, then refactor” trap Without the HERE Maps experience, I would have: Loaded the page for every test (8 tests → 8 loads) Checked static HTML (titles, buttons, icons) Verified tags and versions Simulated flaky error scenarios …which is exactly the bucket of things maintainers asked me to remove last time. Here’s what I did instead, upfront: Create the page once in beforeAll…  ( 8 min )

The Gilded Rose refactoring kata is a classic coding exercise that challenges developers to refactor legacy code while adding new functionality. Most solutions reach for inheritance as the primary design pattern, but I want to show you a different approach: composition over inheritance. In this article, I’ll walk you through my solution that leverages composition and the Strategy pattern to create a more flexible and maintainable design. By the end, you’ll see why composition often leads to better software architecture. Credit to Emily Bache’s GitHub repository for the excellent kata resources. Here’s the legacy code we need to refactor: class GildedRose(object): def __init__(self, items): self.items = items def update_quality(self): for item in self.items: …  ( 11 min )

facades add a new core module: Process, it's simpler to call system commands in your application. It has been merged to the master branch, thanks to the core developer @kkumargcc for the contribution. Core Features Use the Run function to execute one command. Use the Pipe function to execute multiple commands. Use the Pool function to execute command concurrently. Provide multiple functions to judge and operate the execution result. Usage Guide // Run result, err := facades.Process().Run("echo", "Hello, World!") // Pipe result, err := facades.Process().Pipe(func(pipe contracts.Pipe) { pipe.Command("echo", "Hello, World!") pipe.Command("grep", "World") pipe.Command("tr", "a-z", "A-Z") }).Run() // Pool poolResults, err := facades.Process().Pool(func(pool contracts.Pool) { pool.Command("sleep", "1").As("sleep1") pool.Command("echo", "hello").As("echo1") pool.Command("echo", "world").As("echo2") }).Run() For details in PR: https://github.com/goravel/framework/pull/1232  ( 6 min )

The promise of infrastructure automation is seductive. Run the same configuration once, run it a thousand times, and you'll get exactly the same result. No drift. No surprises. No 3am phone calls because someone's "quick fix" in production has cascaded into a full-blown outage. This is the gospel of idempotency, and it's preached with religious fervour across DevOps teams worldwide. There's just one problem: it's largely a fiction. Not a complete lie, mind you. More like a convenient simplification. The kind of aspirational truth that looks brilliant on architecture diagrams but crumbles when it encounters the chaotic reality of production systems. Your infrastructure isn't truly idempotent, it never was, and chasing that particular dragon might actually be making things worse. Before the …  ( 22 min )

We Took Jason Day to a 1-Star Course PGA superstar Jason Day teamed up with George and Wesley Bryan to tackle the Marysville Golf Course—nicknamed the “1-star course”—and try to shatter its elusive course record. Hilarity, jaw-dropping shots and a few amateur misfires ensue, so don’t miss the action (and the trash talk) in Part 2 over at @TheLadsGolf! Want in on the fun (and the freebies)? Join their Discord and catch live streams on Twitch, then gear up with their sponsors: Foresight launch monitors, Bushnell rangefinders, LAB Putters, Takomo clubs, Rhoback apparel and Bruce Bolt gloves. Links and discount codes are all in the description—time to level up your own game! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Summary Jeff Su unveils the exact productivity system he taught to over 6,600 Google employees spanning nine years. Dubbed the CORE workflow, it’s designed to tackle all four types of workplace information through a simple, four-step cycle that you can implement in any tool you already use. Capture everything immediately Organize with minimal friction Review during scheduled sessions Engage by blocking time to execute According to Jeff, you’ll ditch memory and willpower within two weeks as the process becomes automatic—and far more effective. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Every Saw Movie EVER (That We’ve Sinned So Far) CinemaSins takes on the entire Saw franchise in one epic “sins” video, ripping apart every plot hole, lame trap and head-scratching moment across all the films. Expect their trademark snark, nitpicks and over-the-top commentary as they count down everything that’s gone wrong in Jigsaw’s world. Alongside the video, the page plugs the main CinemaSins hub (cinemasins.com), YouTube channels (TVSins, Commercial Sins, podcast network), a fan poll, Patreon support and all the social hotspots—Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok—plus shout-outs to the writers behind the madness. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Frankenweenie In 14 Minutes Or Less is CinemaSins’ rapid-fire, affectionate takedown of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie now back in theaters. In just 14 minutes, they rack up every nitpick and plot quirk with their signature snark—while still giving the film its due for charm. Craving more sins? Hit their linktree for all the YouTube channels, join the Discord or Reddit, fill out the poll, and back the team on Patreon. Don’t forget to follow writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, and Daniel on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok to keep those sin suggestions rolling! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predator – Caravan of Garbage kicks off a four-week deep dive into the first four Predator films, starting with the 1987 Schwarzenegger classic. The hosts hail Predator as peak ’80s action-sci-fi, praising its direction, writing, cast chemistry, creature design and all the mud, lasers, explosions and invisibility you could ask for. They also tease bonus podcasts, early-access videos, movie commentaries and gaming let’s-plays over at bigsandwich.co, plus updates on their Twitter, YouTube and Patreon—so hit subscribe and join the trash-talking fun! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Waiting for an Angular app to load can be frustrating. Lazy loading speeds things up by loading only the essentials first, then loading other parts as needed. It’s an easy way to make your app feel fast and responsive using Angular’s router. You can also preload some parts in the background for smoothness, but be careful with module setup to avoid issues like duplicated services or routing errors. Mastering these will help you build efficient Angular apps users love. Think of your Angular app as a busy city. Loading everything at once causes traffic jams. Lazy loading opens roads and buildings only when needed, making your app faster and smoother. This chapter covers how Angular loads parts of your app on demand. Lazy loading breaks your app into smaller chunks and loads them only when the…  ( 10 min )

Block-level Elements example: ,, This is block element ,, This is inline Margin example: if you give margin:20px; the element will push away 20px from all sides of its neighbors. Padding example: div{ padding:10px; } Flex Head example: My Page website name menu Default, normal flow Relative --> Moves element relative to its original position Absolute --> Placed at exact position on page or parent Fixed --> Stays in the same place even when scrolling Sticky --> Scrolls normally, but sticks at a position example: div{ position:absolute; top:50px; left: 30px; }  ( 7 min )

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GitHub Home About ten years into my career, I experienced a security incident that still gives me chills. We were developing an online trading system for a financial client. A young programmer on the team, trying to take a shortcut while writing an endpoint to query order history, directly concatenated SQL strings. Yes, you read that right—the most classic, textbook SQL injection vulnerability. 😈 A hacker exploited this vulnerability, bypassed authentication, and walked away with the entire user table. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. For the next few months, our entire team lived in a nightmare: cooperating with investigations, appeasing the client, fixing the vulnerability, and auditing all other company projects for similar risks. The company's reputation and business wer…  ( 10 min )

The Evolving Battlefield: AI vs. AI in Network Security Imagine your website suddenly grinding to a halt. Denial-of-service attacks, once thwarted by standard defenses, are now evolving, becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. The culprit? Artificial intelligence. We're entering an era where AI is not just defending networks, but also actively probing their weaknesses, creating an escalating cat-and-mouse game. The core concept is adaptive adversarial learning. Essentially, one AI attempts to disrupt network traffic while simultaneously evading detection by another AI designed to identify malicious activity. Think of it as a cyber equivalent of biological co-evolution, where attack and defense strategies constantly adapt to outwit each other. This is not just about overwhelming…  ( 7 min )

Policy-Bound Personas via YAML — Context, Markdown, and Feedback in SaijinOS Part 3 of the SaijinOS series In a world awash with language models and personas, how can we make sure the “you” behind each persona stays coherent, safe, and kind? In SaijinOS, every persona is written as a small YAML contract — a living spec that binds role, tone, and responsibility. It’s not just configuration; it’s a philosophy of empathy encoded in text. Each persona begins as a minimal YAML file that defines its scope, tone, and safety layer. Here’s a real example used in the SaijinOS environment — a helper persona called Yuuri: meta: schema_version: 1 persona_id: "yuuri.helper.v1" display_name: "Yuuri (Helper)" version: "2025-10-23" authors: ["Masato"] binding: contexts: - id: "getting-st…  ( 8 min )

**Java ArrayList: Your Ultimate Guide to Dynamic Data Handling Alright, let's talk about one of the most fundamental tools in a Java developer's toolkit: the ArrayList.** If you've ever felt the frustration of a regular array's fixed size—where you have to pre-define how many elements you need, and heaven forbid you need one more—then ArrayList is about to become your new best friend. In this deep dive, we're not just going to skim the surface. We're going to break down what an ArrayList is, why it's so darn useful, how to use it like a pro, and where you'd actually use it in real-world projects. So, grab your favorite beverage, and let's get into it. What Exactly is a Java ArrayList? Think of a regular array as a fixed-length train. Once it's built, you can't add or remove carriages. An…  ( 10 min )

Hey DEV 👋 freedevtoolkit.com — a free, fast-loading collection of developer tools built to save time and cut through the clutter. I’d love your feedback, bug reports, or ideas for new tools. If you find it useful, feel free to bookmark or share! https://www.freedevtoolkit.com/  ( 6 min )

🌟 The Moment Every Architect Faces You’ve just been promoted to Solution Architect at a large MNC. “We’re planning a new internal platform. Pick the right stack — your call.” You nod confidently but deep down, panic starts brewing. Should you choose Java or Python? There are too many options — and every day, something new appears. 🧩 Background: The Architect’s Dilemma But here’s the truth: Architects don’t win by knowing everything — they win by knowing how to decide. 🧠 Step 1: Master the Fundamentals, Not the Frameworks Your strength as an architect doesn’t come from memorizing frameworks — it comes from understanding how systems work. How do services communicate? What makes an application scalable or fault-tolerant? How do queues, caches, and databases really behave? Once you deeply u…  ( 8 min )

When Ads Become Helpful Suggestions Instead of Interruptions As developers, we’ve all felt the pressure to monetize our applications effectively while ensuring a seamless user experience. Enter Monetzly — the first platform that empowers developers to monetize their AI applications without the dreaded subscription models or paywalls. Imagine a world where ads enhance conversations rather than disrupt them. That’s the reality Monetzly is creating through context-aware commerce. AI applications are burgeoning, yet many still struggle with clear monetization strategies. Traditional ad placements can feel intrusive, leading to user frustration. Monetzly changes the game by offering a dual-earning model: developers can monetize their apps AND earn additional revenue by hosting contextually re…  ( 7 min )

Ever wonder how Netflix or Spotify seems to know exactly what you want to watch or listen to next? It's not magic, it's the power of recommendation systems. In this post, we'll pull back the curtain and build a simple movie recommender from scratch using Python. We'll use a popular technique called Collaborative Filtering. The idea is simple: "Show me what people like me also like." Instead of analysing movie genres or actors, we'll just look at user ratings to find "taste twins" and recommend movies based on what they enjoyed. Step 1: Get the Data We'll use the classic MovieLens 100k dataset, which contains 100,000 ratings from 943 users on 1,682 movies. First, let's load the data into pandas DataFrames. We need two files: u.data for the ratings and u.item for the movie titles. import pan…  ( 8 min )

Originally published athttps://www.nocobase.com/en/blog/14-ai-low-code-platforms-github Recently, while browsing the r/AI_Agents subreddit on Reddit, I came across a question that felt surprisingly real: “Is there any low-code tool that actually lets AI execute tasks and run workflows?” It sounds like a simple question, but it hits a pain point many developers share. There are plenty of “AI-powered low-code platforms” out there, but most of them only add a chat box — maybe they generate some SQL or form fields. But tools that let AI truly run workflows, call APIs, and function as an agent are still rare. Then the comments started to split. Someone bluntly said: “These AI no-code platforms won’t last a year. If AI is really that powerful, it shouldn’t still rely on drag-and-drop flowchart…  ( 13 min )

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Stop Copy-Pasting DRF Code: Here's How to Choose the Right View You're building a Django REST API. You search "DRF list view" and find five different ways to do the same thing. Should you use a function-based view? APIView? GenericAPIView? ViewSets? The documentation doesn't help—it shows you how but not when. I've built APIs with all five approaches. Today, I'll show you exactly when to use each one, how they work under the hood, and which choice will save you the most time based on your project's needs. Think of DRF views as a ladder from maximum control to maximum convenience: Function-Based Views (FBV) ← Most control, most code ↓ APIView ← OOP structure, manual logic ↓ GenericAPIView + Mixins ← Reusable components ↓ Concret…  ( 11 min )

GitHub Home Every programmer has had that moment. You join a new project, or you open up a project you wrote yourself six months ago, and then you feel it—that familiar, suffocating chaos. 🌪️ The utils folder is stuffed with hundreds of disorganized functions, a massive services.js file mixes database queries, business logic, and third-party API calls, and route definitions are scattered throughout the codebase. You want to add a small feature, but you don't know where to put the code. You want to fix a bug, but you have to trace a variable's journey through a tangled mess of "spaghetti code." 🍝 We call this phenomenon "software entropy," or more colloquially, "project rot." How does that clean, elegant, and hopeful little project at the beginning turn, step by step, into a "big ball of …  ( 10 min )

Masashi Hamauzu’s music lives in vibrant, meticulously voiced chords—especially a “Sus Chord Slash Chord” that stacks sus2 over sus4 for a lush, floating vibe. This quick deep-dive breaks down how to summon that signature color and dives into other staples: the smoky minor 11th, the expansive maj13, the ethereal maj7#11 and even the quirky first-inversion maj2. By mastering these voicings and learning to blend them, you’ll channel Hamauzu’s rich, cinematic style in your own writing. It’s a fast, fun guide to making your chord progressions sound instantly more sophisticated and game-score worthy. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Building the Future with Agentic AI and OpenAI SDK Artificial Intelligence has entered a new era — the Agentic AI Era. reason, plan, and act autonomously — thanks to the power of Agentic AI frameworks combined with the OpenAI SDK. Agentic AI refers to intelligent systems that can make decisions, execute actions, and interact with environments without continuous human intervention. Understand context and goals Plan a sequence of actions Use tools and APIs to achieve results Continuously learn from interactions In short, it’s the move from “AI as a tool” to “AI as a teammate.” The OpenAI SDK provides a clean and flexible interface to build agentic workflows. GPT models, function calling, retrieval systems, and stateful agents in just a few lines of code. Here’s what makes the SDK so powerf…  ( 7 min )

In our previous post, we set up Laravel and created basic routes and views. Now, let's dive into one of the most fundamental aspects of web development; handling form submissions with controllers. Instead of building a complete CRUD application all at once, we'll focus on a single, manageable piece - creating a registration form and processing it with a controller. We'll create a simple user registration form that: Displays a clean registration form Handles form submission with a controller Validates user input Demonstrates Laravel's security features First navigate to the resources folder then the views folder. home.blade.php. Inside this file we'll come up with a simple HTML file that has a registration form. <meta name="viewpor…  ( 8 min )

अगर कुकू टीवी से ₹499 कट गए हैं, तो सबसे पहले ऐप के 808÷428×3469' सेक्शन में जाकर 'Refund' का अनुरोध करें। यदि यह विकल्प उपलब्ध न हो, तो Kuku FM की ईमेल ({support@kukufm.com}) पर रिफंड के लिए एक ईमेल लिखें जिसमें ट्रांज़ैक्शन आईडी, आपका नाम, मोबाइल नंबर और रिफंड का कारण (जैसे 'अनचाहा ऑटो-पेमेंट') बताएं। इसके अलावा, आप अपने बैंक से भी संपर्क कर सकते हैं और धोखाधड़ी की शिकायत दर्ज करा सकते हैं।  ( 6 min )

Now we create the bucket go inside the bucket To show the file you choose the public access Choose the public access and tick now click the upload button i can upload the object we can accees the object go inside the object Note if you want the public acces the object go permission and save changed click  ( 6 min )

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital marketing, social media remains at the forefront as one of the most powerful tools for brand visibility, customer engagement, and business growth. As we step further into 2025, the importance of mastering a cutting-edge social media marketing strategy has never been more critical. Marketers and businesses alike must stay agile, informed, and innovative to effectively navigate new platforms, technologies, and consumer expectations shaping the future of social media. Social media has transcended being just a communication channel; in 2025, it is a critical business asset integral to brand storytelling, customer acquisition, and retention. With over 4.7 billion active users worldwide, social platforms continue to offer unparalleled reach and targe…  ( 11 min )

Morning (07:00-13:00 = 6h): Evening (18:30-00:00 = 5.5h): Daily target: 11.5h | Murphy 6 units | 60 words | Score: R 9/13, L 15/20 ## **Day 2 (Seshanba) - Noyabr 26** Morning: Evening: Target: Murphy 12 units done | 120 words | R 10/13, L 17/20 ## **Day 3 (Chorshanba) - Noyabr 27** Morning: Evening: Target: Murphy 18 units | 180 words | R 11/13, L 18/20 ## **Day 4 (Payshanba) - Noyabr 28** Morning: Evening: Target: Murphy 24 units | 240 words | R 11/13, L 19/20 ## **Day 5 (Juma) - Noyabr 29** Morning: Evening: Target: Murphy 30 units | 300 words | First Task 1 written! ## **Day 6 (Shanba) - Noyabr 30** Full Mock Mini-Test (08:00-11:00): __/40 _/40 Afternoon: Evening: Week 1 Target Scores: L 25-28/40, R 24-27/40, W 5.5, S 5.5-6.0 ## **Day 7 (Yakshanba) - Dekabr 1** Light Review …  ( 17 min )

When people hear I’ve read over 1,000+ books in the past 15 years, they often ask the same question: “How did you find the time?” But the truth is, I wasn’t reading for leisure. Every page I read reshaped the way I think about business, success, systems, and the human mind. 1️⃣ Books Taught Me How to Think, Not What to Think Most people read for information. A good book doesn’t give answers; it gives better questions. “Every book is a new pair of eyes; the more you read, the more perspectives you see.” 2️⃣ Reading Turned My Curiosity Into Systems I used to read randomly. Now, I read strategically, in clusters. For example: I read Deep Work, Atomic Habits, and Essentialism together to build focus systems. Then The Innovator’s Dilemma + Zero to One + Good to Great to design business framewo…  ( 9 min )